The Dinner

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THAT'S GOT EVERYONE TALKING...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 YEARLONGLISTED 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

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Product details

• Authors: Herman Koch, Koch Herman
• Assisted by: Sam Garrett (Translation), Garrett Sam (Translation)
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2014
• EAN: 9781782394884
• ISBN: 978-1-78239-488-4
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Noir, Humour, Family life fiction, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction