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Published 18 November 2015
ISBN 9781925240665
Format Paperback
Extent 416pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

Summer House with Swimming Pool



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Featuring the razor-sharp humour and acute psychological insight that made The Dinner an international phenomenon, Summer House with Swimming Pool is a controversial, thought-provoking novel that showcases Herman Koch at his finest.

When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he's not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars, Marc can't hide from the truth forever.

It all started the previous summer. Marc, his wife, and their two beautiful teenage daughters agreed to spend a week at the Meier's extravagant summer home on the Mediterranean. Joined by Ralph and his striking wife Judith, her mother, film director Stanley Forbes and his much younger girlfriend, the large group settles in for days of sunshine, wine tasting, and trips to the beach. But when a violent incident disrupts the idyll, darker motivations are revealed, and suddenly no one can be trusted. As the ultimate holiday soon turns into a nightmare, the circumstances surrounding Ralph's (later) death begin to reveal the disturbing reality behind that summer's tragedy.

Published 18 November 2015
ISBN 9781925240665
Format Paperback
Extent 416pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $26.00

About the author

Herman Koch

Herman Koch is an actor, screenwriter and columnist in the Netherlands and the author of a number of satirical novels, including The Dinner, Summer House with Swimming Pool and Dear Mr M. Now a major film, The Dinner was the first of his books to be published in English and spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list. It has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into thirty-nine languages.

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Praise for Summer House with Swimming Pool

Even in translation from Dutch, there's no false note . . . The ending is tantalisingly ambiguous. What is clear is that Schlosser, with his scepticism and suspicion, has built his own dark universe. A world that is both disturbing and engrossing, to which we are granted a privileged view, from a merciful distance

Saturday Paper

Just as he did in his bestseller The Dinner (2013), Dutch novelist Koch tells a sinister tale through the eyes of a questionable narrator . . . Koch's deft and nuanced exploration of gender, guilt, and vengeance make his second novel to be translated into English an absorbing read

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