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The Dinner

The Dinner

by HermanKoch (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Aug 2012
ISBN 10: 1848873824
ISBN 13: 9781848873827
Prizes: Shortlisted for Specsavers National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2012.

Media Reviews
An essential summer read * Independent Magazine *
The talking point of the summer * Sunday Times *
I'm confidently predicting that The Dinner will become this summer's literary talk of the town... Order yours now -- Melanie McGrath * Evening Standard *
Rather like The Slap it is set to become a contentious must-read. It may thrill, chill or cheat, but it is undeniably riveting -- Arifa Akbar * Independent *
Shivers kept shooting up my backbone as I became engrossed in Koch's darkly disturbing tale of family life... As the dinner disintegrates into mayhem, we discover just how far the middle classes will go to protect their monstrous offspring -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail *
The perfect undemanding, credible, terrifying beach read * Financial Times *
Proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world... The best beach read of the season * Economist *
Author Bio
Herman Koch, born in 1953, is a Dutch writer. He was a renowned television actor on the series Jiskefet and a former columnist for the newspaper Volkskrant. The Dinner is his sixth novel and has already won the prestigious Publieksprijs Prize in 2009. Herman Koch currently lives in Amsterdam.