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The Ditch

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b>In the new novel by the author of the world-wide bestseller The Dinner, Herman Koch turns his brilliantly acid and forensic eye to the green-eyed monster: the all-too human emotion of jealousy./b>Robert Walter, the popular mayor of Amsterdam, begins to suspect that his wife is cheating on him with one of his aldermen. Though he is happily married, he has always wondered why his wife, born and raised in a distant country, chose him above his brilliant and good-looking physicist friend Bernhard.When, to add to his concerns, he becomes the subject of accusations relating to his past, at the same time his parents force him to address issues of their mortality. This apparently stable and successful man begins to become consumed by fantasies of jealousy and paranoia.Or does he? Is Robert finally beginning to see the world - and his life - as they are, for the first time?As page-turning and gripping as The Dinner, Koch's new novel confronts us with questions that haunt us all. Who can we trust? Do we deserve our lives or owe them only to luck? And is it when we are depressed that we see the world most clearly?

Product details

Authors Herman Koch
Assisted by Sam Garrett (Translation)
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 04.04.2019
 
EAN 9781509883455
ISBN 978-1-5098-8345-5
No. of pages 352
Dimensions 145 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Amsterdam, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Fiction in translation, Netherlands

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