The Dinner
By: Herman Koch ; translated by Sam Garrett
Edition: printing (3)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Translation of: Het diner
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780857897206
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Dutch fiction; Translations into English; Families; Fiction
Description: A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened... 

Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. Together, the boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on camera, and their grainy images have been beamed into living rooms across the nation; despite a police manhunt, the boys remain unidentified - by everyone except their parents. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children and, as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
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Notes: UK