The Dinner

a novel

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On a summer evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. At first, the conversation is a gentle hum of polite small talk - the banality of work, the latest movies they've seen. 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 …

Hardcover, 292 pages

English language

Published Feb. 6, 2013 by Hogarth.

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OCLC Number:
1031963179

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  • Families
  • Fiction

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