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The dinner [sound recording] : a novel / Herman Koch.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781620645918
  • ISBN: 1620645912
  • Physical Description: 8 sound discs (539 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: North Kingstown, RI : AudioGO, p2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Compact disc.
Unabridged.
Translation of: Diner.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Clive Mantle.
Summary, etc.:
On a summer night, two couples meet for dinner at a trendy Amsterdam restaurant. What starts off as friendly conversation quickly changes. Both couples have teenage sons, and those two boys are linked together through a tragic act. Soon, both sets of parents reveal just what they are willing to do to protect their children.
Language Note:
Translated from the Dutch.
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Parent and child > Fiction.
Dinners and dining > Fiction.
Life change events > Fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands) > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 2 total copies.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Main CD Fiction Koch 8 discs (Text) 31307016208649 Audiobooks Available -
Van Belkum CD Fiction Koch 8 discs (Text) 31307022773206 Audiobooks Available -

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Syndetic Solutions - Summary for ISBN Number 9781620645918
The Dinner : A Novel
The Dinner : A Novel
by Koch, Herman; Garrett, Sam (Translator); Mantle, Clive (Read by)
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The Dinner : A Novel


NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives--all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture."Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. 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. 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. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.

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