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Synopsis
"A European Gone Girl." --The Wall Street Journal
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 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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An essential summer read * Independent Magazine * The talking point of the summer * Sunday Times * I'm confidently predicting that The Dinner will become this summer's literary talk of the town... Order yours now -- Melanie McGrath * Evening Standard * Rather like The Slap it is set to become a contentious must-read. It may thrill, chill or cheat, but it is undeniably riveting -- Arifa Akbar * Independent * Shivers kept shooting up my backbone as I became engrossed in Koch's darkly disturbing tale of family life... As the dinner disintegrates into mayhem, we discover just how far the middle classes will go to protect their monstrous offspring -- Val Hennessy * Daily Mail * The perfect undemanding, credible, terrifying beach read * Financial Times * Proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world... The best beach read of the season * Economist *
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'Perfect ... Terrifying.' (The Financial Times)
'The talking point of the summer.' (The Sunday Times)
'A family drama replete with surprises, so it is important not to give away too much of the plot here. It is enough to say that Mr Koch seizes his [listeners] by the ear, and with a sharp pinch pulls their sympathies this way and that ... Proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world ... The [listener] does not rise from his table happy and replete so much as stand up suddenly, pale and reeling. Bored with Fifty Shades of Grey and all that brouhaha? [lListen to] The Dinner – and taste the shock.' (The Economist)
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- PublisherHogarth Pr
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0770437850
- ISBN 13 9780770437855
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages292
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