The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
2012
PT5881.21.O25 D56513 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
Author
Koch, Herman, 1953-
Uniform Title
Diner. English
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780770437855
0770437850
0770437850
Imprint
London ; New York : Hogarth, c2012.
Language
English
Description
292 p. ; 22 cm
Call Number
PT5881.21.O25 D56513 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
839.31/364
Summary
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.
Added Author
Garrett, Sam.
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