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The dinner / Herman Koch.
"A European Gone Girl." --The Wall Street JournalAn 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,...
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- ISBN: 9780385346849 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2013.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Hogarth, 2013. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2765 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Subject: | Fiction Literature. Suspense. Thriller. |
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