The Dinner (Paperback)

"A European" Gone Girl."" --"The Wall Street Journal
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An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives--all over the course of one meal.
It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. 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. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader's guide and bonus content

General

Imprint:	Hogarth Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	October 2013
Authors:	Herman Koch
Dimensions:	204 x 133 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-385-34685-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-385-34685-9
Barcode:	9780385346856

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