
The Dinner
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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 delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened...
Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. Together, the boys have committed a horrifying act, caught on camera, and their grainy images have been beamed into living rooms across the nation; despite a police manhunt, the boys remain unidentified - by everyone except their parents. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children and, as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS - INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDS
'A brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go' -- SJ Watson
Reviews / Votes
Smart, shocking and unputdownable * Gillian Flynn, no.1 bestselling author of Gone Girl * Deliciously dark... An essential summer read * Independent * Gripping... The talking point of the summer * Sunday Times * A feast of a novel... Spine-chillingly brilliant * Evening Standard * 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 *More details
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- APERITIF
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- APPETIZER
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- MAIN COURSE
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- DESSERT
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- DIGESTIF
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- Note on the Author
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