An edition of Het Diner (2009)

The Dinner

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An edition of Het Diner (2009)

The Dinner

Extra Libris
  • 3.6 (12 ratings) ·
  • 52 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

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 polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse — the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. 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.
Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. 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.

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Publisher
Hogarth
Language
English

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Cover of: The Dinner
The Dinner
2014, Atlantic Books
paperback in English
Cover of: Le dîner
Le dîner
2013-02, 10-18
paperback in French
Cover of: The Dinner
The Dinner
2013, Hogarth
Paperback in English - First Paperback Edition (5), Extra Libris
Cover of: The Dinner
The Dinner
2013, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Large print edition (2)
Cover of: The Dinner
The Dinner
2013, Hogarth
Epub in English - Extra Libris
Cover of: Le dîner
Le dîner
2012-02, Éd. France loisirs
paperback in French - Edition du Club France Loisirs
Cover of: The Dinner
The Dinner
2012, Atlantic Books
Paperback in English - printing (3)
Cover of: Le dîner
Le dîner
2011-05, Belfond
Paperback in French
Cover of: Angerichtet
Angerichtet
2011, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
mass market paperback in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: Angerichtet
Angerichtet
2010, Kiepenheuer & Witsch
ebook in German - 1. Auflage
Cover of: La cena
La cena
2010-09, Salamandra
in Spanish - 1a ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
London, England
Copyright Date
2013
Translation Of
Het Diner
Translated From
Dutch

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
839.31/364
Library of Congress
PT5881.21.O25 D56513 2012

Contributors

Translator
Sam Garrett

The Physical Object

Format
Epub

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26609820M
ISBN 10
0385346840
ISBN 13
9780385346849
LCCN
2012025626
OCLC/WorldCat
924550996
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B008ZPGDX0
Google
K-EQ5GJrOykC
Goodreads
43207967

Work Description

Het diner is een roman uit 2009 van de Nederlandse auteur Herman Koch. Het diner gaat over vier ouders (twee broers en hun echtgenoten) wier loyaliteit jegens hun kinderen op de proef wordt gesteld wanneer blijkt dat die een misdaad op hun geweten hebben: in hoeverre mag je je kinderen blijven beschermen?

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