The Dinner
by Herman Koch
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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.
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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
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Netherlands, NiederlandeShowing 11 featured editions. View all 33 editions?
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The Dinner
2013, Thorndike Press
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2013, Hogarth
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2011, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
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"How far would you go to protect the ones you love?"--Cover.
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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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