A review by lemonnut
The Dinner by Herman Koch

3.0

Good book, but very dark. It starts off very quietly, as just a dinner in a nice restaurant, but as the book unfolds and secrets are revealed about the 2 families, it continues to build, all in a very quiet tone. Even the most violent scenes are described in a detached manner, and the reader gets the sense of watching the entire evening (with flashbacks) occur almost in slow motion.