Chop Chop
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
Wenn in einem Raum voller Psychopathen jeder ein Messer in der Hand hat, bist du entweder in Schwierigkeiten oder in einer Restaurantküche. Monocle ist beides. Sein Vater hält ihn für einen Versager, was Monocle zwar nicht so sieht, aber nicht beweisen kann. Er ist pleite, steckt in einer Sinnkrise und befindet sich gegenwärtig als Küchenhilfe ganz unten in der Nahrungskette des Londoner Restaurants »Swan«. Die Küche wird regiert von Irren, von denen einige brillante Köche sind, andere einfach nur Sadisten. Wie Bob, der Chef. Als die Küchenmannschaft gegen Bob aufbegehrt und Monocles Vater ehekrisenbedingt bei ihm einzieht, geraten die Dinge zunehmend außer Kontrolle.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his fiction debut, Wroe, a freelance journalist and former chef, invents (or possibly recalls) the life of a chef. The narrator, Monocle, is so nicknamed by his fellow chefs because of his English degree. He is an aspiring writer living in London's Camden Town, who, in order to pay rent, unwillingly accepts a job at a restaurant called the Swan, where he suffers the bizarre and darkly comical torment of his boss, Bob, a culinary dictator ("Bob wanted soldiers, psychopaths, and masochists"). Amid the diabolical name-calling and the intentional spilling of boiling caramel to ensure his workers have real chef hands, Bob orchestrates an array of undeserved disciplinary actions for his workers. The worst punishment is a time-out in the refrigerator next to live lobsters that Bob personally detanks for the occasion. Despite his suffering, Monocle returns to the stove daily, out of stubbornness inherited from his unsupportive and egocentric father. Then Bob's tyranny is challenged with the arrival of crafty and crude chef Ramilov who also threatens the future of the Swan. Wroe's imaginative metaphors and gritty kitchen colloquialisms are the key ingredients in a story that will appeal to anyone with a taste for the morbid and the whimsical.
