The Dinner
Published on 5. April 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-78649-502-0 (ISBN)
Description
I felt the same cold that I had felt earlier that evening in my son's room, the cold that came from inside. Beside the homeless person's head, Rick's face appeared. My nephew grinned at the camera. 'Take one,' he said. 'Action!'
An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner to discuss their teenage sons. The boys have committed a horrifying crime, caught on CCTV, but so far they remain unidentified - except by their parents. Over the polite hum of restaurant conversation and the squeal of cutlery on plates, the couples have a question to answer: how far will they go to protect their children?
An evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet for dinner to discuss their teenage sons. The boys have committed a horrifying crime, caught on CCTV, but so far they remain unidentified - except by their parents. Over the polite hum of restaurant conversation and the squeal of cutlery on plates, the couples have a question to answer: how far will they go to protect their children?
Reviews / Votes
Gripping * Sunday Times * Deliciously dark * Independent * A feast of a novel... Spine-chillingly brilliant * Evening Standard * Smart, shocking and unputdownable * Gillian Flynn * A brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go * SJ Watson, author of Before I Go To Sleep * 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 * Riveting, compelling and deliciously uncomfortable * Christos Tsiolkas * What a tremendous book. I loved every single gripping and strange thing about it. * MJ Hyland *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
311 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78649-502-0 (9781786495020)
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Persons
Herman Koch, born in 1953, is a Dutch writer. The Dinner is his sixth novel and won the Netherlands' most prestigious literary prize. Herman Koch currently lives in Amsterdam.
Sam Garrett has translated some 30 novels and works of non-fiction, for which he has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards.
Sam Garrett has translated some 30 novels and works of non-fiction, for which he has won prizes and appeared on shortlists for some of the world's most prestigious literary awards.