The Dinner
Subtitle: a novel
By: Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Contributors: Garrett, Sam
Edition: 1st edition (3)
Publisher: Hogarth
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Translation of: Het diner
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780770437855
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Work titles: Het diner
Description: On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. But behind the empty words, 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. When the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. 

Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner is an internationally bestselling phenomenon that will leave you breathless.

(front flap)
Notes: US/CAN