The Dinner
a novel
by Herman Koch
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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.
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Dutch literature, dysfunctional families, dinners and dining, Violence, Families, Fiction, family life, literary fiction, psychological fiction, suspense, thriller, literature, Translations into English, Dutch fiction, Fiction, psychological, Amsterdam (netherlands), fiction, Fiction, family life, Parent and child, fiction, Large type books, Kind, Moralische Verantwortung, Eltern, Erziehung, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2013-03-03, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, family life, generalPeople
Paul Lohman, Michel Lohman, Rick Lohman, Serge LohmanPlaces
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The Dinner
2013, Hogarth
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The Dinner
2013, Thorndike Press
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2011, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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Het diner is een roman uit 2009 van de Nederlandse auteur Herman Koch. Het diner gaat over vier ouders (twee broers en hun echtgenoten) wier loyaliteit jegens hun kinderen op de proef wordt gesteld wanneer blijkt dat die een misdaad op hun geweten hebben: in hoeverre mag je je kinderen blijven beschermen?
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