Cheese
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This has been gathering dust on my shelves for too long. I'm never going to get around to reading it.
From the back of the book (all typos mine):
A delicious satire about business, greed, ambition and cheese - Edam's great moment in world literature.
Frans Laarsmans is a humble shipping clerk. One day he is suddenly elevated to the position of chief agent for a Dutch cheese company, with responsibility for Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Thrilled at the change in his status, he goes on leave and sets up an office at home. He takes delivery of ten thousand full-cream Edams.
But running a business is not as straightforward as he thought. As the bulk of the twenty tons of cheese sits in storage, crates and crates of it, it starts to haunt him. And when his employer, the brusque Mr Hornstra, wires him to say he is coming to Antwerp to settle the first accounts, Laarsmans begins to panic.
From the back of the book (all typos mine):
A delicious satire about business, greed, ambition and cheese - Edam's great moment in world literature.
Frans Laarsmans is a humble shipping clerk. One day he is suddenly elevated to the position of chief agent for a Dutch cheese company, with responsibility for Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Thrilled at the change in his status, he goes on leave and sets up an office at home. He takes delivery of ten thousand full-cream Edams.
But running a business is not as straightforward as he thought. As the bulk of the twenty tons of cheese sits in storage, crates and crates of it, it starts to haunt him. And when his employer, the brusque Mr Hornstra, wires him to say he is coming to Antwerp to settle the first accounts, Laarsmans begins to panic.
Journal Entry 2 by 
AnonymousFinder
at Bilgola, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
AnonymousFinder at Bilgola, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, July 11, 2012
A beautifully written, easy to read book of its time, and an expose of human nature.
