The Dinner
By: Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
Contributors: Garrett, Sam, translator
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781848873827
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Families; Fiction
Work titles: Het diner
Description: A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. 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. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children, and as civility and friendship disintegrates, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
--back cover
Notes: "How far would you go to protect the ones you love?"--Cover.
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