The Dinner - Herman Koch Described by the poet Joseph

Described by the poet Joseph Brodsky as 'one of the most innovative novels in Russian literature'

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Leda is overwhelmed by memories of the difficult and unconventional choices she made as a mother and their consequences for herself and her family

The Dinner - Herman Koch Described by the poet JosephA summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened Each couple has a fifteen year old son. Together, the boys have committed a