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The dinner : a novel
Title:
The dinner : a novel
Author:
Koch, Herman, 1953-
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Diner. English
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Hogarth, [2012]

©2012
Physical Description:
292 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, 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.
General Note:
Originally published in the Netherlands as Het Diner by Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam, in 2009 --T.p. verso.
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780385346856

9780770437855
Format :
Book