The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 310 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780385346856 (pbk.); 0385346859 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Diner. English Subject(s): Families -- Netherlands -- Fiction | Violence -- Fiction | Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- FictionDDC classification: 839.31/364 LOC classification: PT5881.21.O25 | D56513 2013Summary: Two brothers and their wives 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.
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| FIC/KLASS Second impact / | FIC/KLINE Orphan train / | FIC/KNO A separate peace: | FIC/KOCH The dinner : | FIC/KOM Just my dad & me / | FIC/KOONTZ Brother Odd./ | FIC/KOONTZ Your Heart Belongs to Me./ |
"Originally published in the Netherlands as Het Diner by Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam, in 2009"--Title page verso.
Two brothers and their wives 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.
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