The Dinner - Herman Koch a feted designer

a feted designer

a society dealing with anxiety and grief

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

he must balance the demands of caring for a young family with his determination to write great literature

The Dinner - Herman Koch a feted designerA 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