The Dinner
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The Dinner
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Narrated by:
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Clive Mantle
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By:
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Herman Koch
About this listen
Shortlisted for: International Author of the Year – Specsavers National Book Awards 2012
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.
©2009 Herman Koch (P)2014 Audible, Inc.What listeners say about The Dinner
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Christine
- 20-02-2017
A slow burner
Be warned: this book is slow moving and obsessed with detail. I'm still not sure if it was worth pushing through, but once I started I found myself compelled to go on because of the mystery element.
I found the structure (around the courses of a meal) innovative and the characterisation was effective. The whole time the narrator positions you to detest a particular character but he ends up being the only decent person in the story - a clever, subtle twist.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kellie Grealy
- 01-11-2017
It was great
I really enjoyed the voice performance!
The story kept me interested and character building was great.
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- Philippa Taylor
- 04-07-2023
Wow, what a thought-provoking ride
Not sure I would have gotten through this book as a physical read - I’ve never before hated all the characters in a book! - but the narration was absolutely perfect and had me engrossed before I knew it. Brilliant story
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- Brendan
- 22-01-2017
terrible
so whingy and whiny and no real story. the way the narrator says Serge Lowman will also do your head in.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Kristy
- 11-01-2018
Dull story with an underwhelming twist
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I constantly found myself zoning out during this one, though it wasn't any fault of the narrator. I just couldn't connect with any of the characters, and it was just too slow going for my tastes. I stuck it out to the end in the hopes it would pick up, but sadly it didn't. The "horrific act" that the children did just didn't have any sort of wow factor, leaving it a really underwhelming twist.
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