- Title:
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The Dinner (MP3)
- Written by:
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Herman Koch
- Read by:
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Clive Mantle
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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8 hours 53 minutes
- MP3 size:
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370 MB
- Published:
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February 01 2016
- Available Date:
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February 01 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489081445
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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International bestselling author
'Perfect ... Terrifying.'
The Financial Times
How far would you go to protect the ones you love?
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. 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 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, the conversation finally touches on their children, and as civility and friendship disintegrates, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
'A family drama replete with surprises, so it is important not to give away too much of the plot here. It is enough to say that Mr Koch seizes his [listeners] by the ear, and with a sharp pinch pulls their sympathies this way and that ... Proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world ... The [listener] does not rise from his table happy and replete so much as stand up suddenly, pale and reeling. Bored with Fifty Shades of Grey and all that brouhaha? [lListen to] The Dinner – and taste the shock.'
The Economist
'The talking point of the summer.'
The Sunday Times