The novel of the popular Dutch writer and journalist Herman Koch in 2009 was awarded the Netherlands of the “Reading Prize”. Since then, he has been translated into more than a dozen languages and brought the author world fame: to date, more than a million copies of the book have been sold.
Her plot, at first seeming unpretentious, is enclosed in a strict time frame: this is just one evening in a fashionable restaurant. Two brothers and wives came there to have dinner and discuss something. Paul Loman is a former history teacher, his brother Serge is a future prime minister, both teenage children. The banal table conversation that has begun gradually develops into a drama, and terrible family secrets appear on the surface one after another. With each new change in dishes, the voltage only increases …
Author
Koch German
Translator
Asoyan Ekaterina
Publisher
ABC, 2016
Series
The Big Book (soft)
16+
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