![]() As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children.Īs civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. 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. 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.īut behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.Įach couple has a fifteen-year-old son. ![]() It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. ![]() Herman Koch, 2009 (the Netherlands), 2013 (USA)Īn 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. ![]()
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