Matias Faldbakken

Praise for The Waiter

As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is a brilliantly exquisite view into an uproariously vigilant life of service and protocol. In Faldbakken’s skilled han ...

J. Ryan Stradal

Faldbakken has a way with non-action. He builds a delicious tension between the paucity of events and the lavishness of the technique with which they are described.

New York Times

A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.

Mail on Sunday

As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is a brilliantly exquisite view into an uproariously vigilant life of service and protocol. In Faldbakken’s skilled han ...

J. Ryan Stradal

Faldbakken has a way with non-action. He builds a delicious tension between the paucity of events and the lavishness of the technique with which they are described.

New York Times

A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.

Mail on Sunday

As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis, The Waiter is a brilliantly exquisite view into an uproariously vigilant life of service and protocol. In Faldbakken’s skilled han ...

J. Ryan Stradal

Faldbakken has a way with non-action. He builds a delicious tension between the paucity of events and the lavishness of the technique with which they are described.

New York Times

A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.

Mail on Sunday