01684nam a2200337u 4500 798058782 OCoLC 20190501233251.0 ta 130228s2012 nyu 000 1 eng d 2012025626 9780770437855 24.00 (OCoLC)798058782 DLC eng DLC BTCTA BDX OCLCO YDXCP IEB eng dut e-ne--- PT5881.21.O25 D56513 2013 Koch, Herman, 1953- Diner. English. The dinner : a novel Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett. 1st ed. New York : Hogarth, c2012. 292 p. ; 22 cm. Originally published in the Netherlands as Het Diner by Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam, in 2009 --T.p. verso. 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 shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Families Netherlands Fiction. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Fiction. Garrett, Sam. 2 23843 23843 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-01-19 6 KOCH 33619 2022-04-26 2022-04-19 24.00 2017-01-19 BOOK