Description
London, in a not-too-distant future. The city is being swallowed into the ground, the rich are still getting richer, and Waiters do the jobs you don't have time for. They queue for your concert tickets, stay in for your deliveries and stir your risotto.
Step into the shoes of an unnamed Waiter who has no recollection of who they were before their role at the Company. Now select your next job and decide whether to peek into the client's luggage, and if you'll risk losing work credits by helping a tired woman with her shopping. Balance your humanity with your job security at every turn, and manage your creeping desire to understand who you once were, and who you might become. You'll want to crawl as close as possible to the edge of the maw without falling into its depths.
With 12 different endings and countless journeys towards them, The Waiter creates a labyrinthine world of possibilities and parallel worlds which combine to explore queer longing, consumerism and agency in a city and a psyche on the brink of collapse.
Your time is precious. Book a Waiter now.
About the Author
Kwan Ann Tan is originally from Malaysia but currently based in London. Her work has previously been published in The Offing, Joyland Magazine, and Sine Theta Magazine. She won the 2023 Bournemouth Writing competition and is an alumnus of the Tin House Winter Workshop. She lives in London. Artist-printmaker Mark Andrew Webber specialises in painstakingly-researched typographic and geometric projects, including his 'Where in the World' series of enormous city maps and 'FORM', a six-part study of line and form. In 2007, Webber was awarded a Silver Cube award from the Art Directors Club of New York. His first solo exhibition, 'Wonderlust', was on display at the Londonewcastle Project Space in London in 2014. He collaborated with poet Jacqueline Saphra on her pamphlet If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women (Emma Press, 2014), illustrating her poems with linocuts inspired by his lifedrawing sketches. He is based in Reading.
Book Information
ISBN 9781915628480
Author Kwan Ann Tan
Format Paperback
Page Count 162
Imprint The Emma Press
Publisher The Emma Press
Series The Emma Press Novels
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 8mm
