TY - BOOK N2 - Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. AB - Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. T1 - The dinner :a novel / DA - c2012. CY - London ; CY - New York : AU - Koch, Herman, AU - Garrett, Sam. ET - 1st ed. CN - PT5881.21.O25 CN - PT5881.21.O25 PB - Hogarth, PP - London ; PP - New York : LA - eng PY - c2012. ID - 467136 KW - Families SN - 9780770437855 SN - 0770437850 TI - The dinner :a novel / ER -