The Dinner
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385346859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. "A European Gone Girl." —The Wall Street JournalAn internationally bestselling phenomenon, soon to be a major motion picture: 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. 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.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content. 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. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite
"FAMILY DYNAMICS & POLITICS" according to Laurel-Rain Snow. Crime and punishment, political aspirations, and family dynamics are the centerpiece for the disturbing novel, The DinnerThe Dinner.Serge Lohman is a politician, but to his family and especially to his brother, he is a narcissistic control freak. When Serge and his wife Babette plan to meet for dinner at an expensive restaurant, accompanied. Fantastic lee I read some pretty negative reviews about this book, particularly relating to the unlikable characters. I would have to agree, no one was very redeeming. But the way each character, slowly revealed themselves though the story was fascinating. Paul appeared to be a typical father of a teenage son with the usual parenting concerns. Slowly tho. Way too long of a dinner. Suffering from indigestion now Wow. Presented as this shocking story. No. There was suspense, yes. It just went on too long. I'm being generous with two stars because the author does seem to make a statement about why humans do what they do.
--Mia Lipman. It's no small feat for the author that the less we trust Paul, the more we want to hear what he has to say. Paul's 15-year-old son, Michel, has committed an unspeakable crime; his brother, on the cusp of becoming the Netherlands' next prime minister, has a delicate wife and two teenagers who share Michel’s secret; Paul's wife, Claire, will do anything to protect their boy. As the two couples inch through an excruciating meal at a chic restaurant--their children's whereabouts uncertain--Paul peels back the layers of their situation, weaving to and fro through time and truth. Best Books of the Month, February 2013: A good unreliable narrator is one of the most satisfying characters a novelist can dream up--and Herman Koch takes us on a hell of a ride through the mind of Paul Lohman,