The Dinner

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?

Description

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 scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. 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. 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. (back cover)

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Other Editions

• The Dinner: a novelPaperbackHogarth2013-01-01
• Het DinerElectronic resourceAnthos2009-01-01
• Het dinerVeen Bosch & Keuning2009-01-01
• Herman Koch Leest Het DinerAudio CDRubenstein2009-05-01
• AngerichtetKiepenheuer & Witsch2010-01-01
• AngerichtetArgon Verlag2010-01-01