The Dinner
'Funny, provocative and exceedingly dark, this is a brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go.' S.J. Watson
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'What a tremendous book. I loved every single gripping and strange thing about it.' M.J. Hyland
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'A heartstopping thriller, in which no one is innocent. Koch is brilliant at not letting the reader off the hook.' Niccolò Ammaniti
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'Are family values good? The Dinner will have you wondering. By the end, when all has become truly chilling, you'll have to rethink everything, including who you are and what you believe. This is a book you won't forget.' David Vann
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'Herman Koch's The Dinner is a riveting, compelling and a deliciously uncomfortable read. Like all great satire it is both lacerating and so very funny. The Dinner got under my skin and punctured all my safe liberal smugness and pieties. Intelligent and complex, this novel is both a punch to the guts and also a tonic. It clears the air. A wonderful book.' Christos Tsiolkas
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'In this exploration of how two families deal with an explosive event, The Dinner is reminiscent of Christos Tsiolkas's blockbuster The Slap.' Stephen Romei, Australian
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'What a wonderfully awkward, slow-burning, page-turning novel it turned out to be.' Melbourne Weekly
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'As much as The Dinner is a suspenseful story about teenage cousins Michel and Rick, it is equally the rich portrayal of the characters and their individual views that pin the reader to the page.' Courier Mail
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'Koch's uncomfortable tale is a wonderful thriller, where the reader's sympathies are forced to switch again and again, and where you race to a final outcome that is anything but what you might expect. Blackly funny, full of sharp edges and hot issues, and compulsively readable. Verdict: feast on this.' Herald Sun
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'The Dinner is a masterful, disturbing piece of theatre.' Age / SMH
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'Little wonder this literary degustation is an international best-seller....a cult movie in the making.' Australian Women's Weekly
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'Terrific, fascinating writing.' Otago Daily Times
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'You'll need a cast-iron stomach to cope with the horrific details, but this meditation on middle-class dilemmas makes compulsive reading.' North & South
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'Sharpen the knives and batten down the tableware!...Herman Koch's The Dinner is a biting, blackly funny story of the lengths to which parents will go to protect their offspring.' Vogue
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'Koch's structure is superb and his story unfolds like a finely crafted piece of theatre.' Weekly Review
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'A tightly written thriller which skilfully plays and changes perceptions of the characters with every paragraph, this will leave you feeling shocked and appalled, but full of admiration for the mastery of Koch's storytelling.' Sunday Herald Sun
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'I'm confidently predicting that The Dinner will become this summer's literary talk of the town.' Evening Standard
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'Proves how powerful fiction can be in illuminating the modern world...The best beach read of the season.' Economist
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'Shivers kept shooting up my backbone as I became engrossed in Koch's darkly disturbing tale of family life...As the dinner disintegrates into mayhem, we discover just how far the middle classes wil go to protect their monstrous offspring.' Daily Mail (UK)
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'Rather like The Slap it is set to become a contentious must-read. It may thrill, chill or cheat, but it is undeniably riveting.' Independent
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Wrenchingly funny and bleak...the darker the whole thing gets, the more your sides will be splitting. The result is a hugely accomplished and surprisingly subtle novel.' Reader's Digest
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