The Chef
By: Martin Suter ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch
Contributors: Bulloch, Jamie, translator
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Der Koch
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780857892911; 9781782390619; 9780857892928
Subjects: Cooks; Tamilen; Aphrodisiakum; Aphrodisiac cooking; Catering; Fiction; Sri Lankans
Work titles: Koch
Description: As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich's leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler, seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan - a Tamil dishwasher and undiscovered culinary genius - and Andrea - a stunningly beautiful waitress - find themselves out of a job and needing to find another way to survive. After Maravan seduces Andrea by cooking her a dinner that fuses the aphrodisiac recipes of his ancestors with the necromancy of molecular gastronomy, Andrea hits upon a business idea: romantic catering for couples. But even culinary magic can't ward off recession and when their new company begins to struggle, they are forced to enter into a much more unsavoury business, plunging them deep into an underworld where murder and sex feed otherwise unquenchable thirsts ...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 293).

Translated from the German.