01675cam a2200325 i 4500 134728310 TxAuBib 20130225120000.0 120710s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012025626 9780770437855 0770437850 TxAuBib rda eng dut Koch, Herman, 1953- Diner English. The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch ; translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett. 1st ed. New York : Hogarth, 2012. 292 p. ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in the Netherlands as Het Diner by Ambo Anthos, Amsterdam, in 2009 --T.p. verso. Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, 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. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. 20130321. Families Netherlands Fiction. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Fiction. Garrett, Sam.