

S'està carregant… El Sopar (2009)de Herman Koch
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Books Read in 2015 (133) » 28 més Books Read in 2014 (549) Books Read in 2013 (890) Books Read in 2016 (4,396) Boeken. (9) Best family sagas (225) feasting on fiction (21) Secrets Books (40) Unreliable Narrators (94) Food Fiction (10) Europe (190) Fiction For Men (114) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Ending is a bit dark and will make you think ( ![]() Got a free advance copy of this at a conference. Fast read, similar in tone to Gone Girl but not as good. This is a book about horrible people. I loved the first half, it kind of lost me in the 2nd half. Prepare to feel despair. Love me an edgy, quasi - literary thriller, and one featuring an unreliable narrator in an exotic locale is on paper a perfect book for me. This was a good intriguing read, though didn't feature any truly jaw dropping moments or quite pack the punch I was hoping for. Dark, twisted tale, with the ultimate unreliable narrator. Each time you think the story can't get any darker it does. Great short novel.
If you want to enjoy Herman Koch’s new novel, don’t read a single thing about it. To do so seriously reduces its power. Don’t read the blurbs on its dust jacket — an impressive list of authors that includes Gillian Flynn and S.J. Watson — nor the synopsis on the inside flap. Don’t even read this review. Actually, forget that — come back! It’s spoiler-free, I promise. . . . The Dinner is the kind of book I wish could be translated into English more often. The Dinner, a suspense novel by Herman Koch, has sold over a million copies since it was published in Europe in 2009, and it's not difficult to understand the appeal. It's fast-paced and riveting. Written in cool, detached prose (deftly translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett), The Dinner is as theatrical and dramatic as a well-crafted play. It's also nasty. It starts off as social satire but shifts gears, and you find yourself in the middle of a horror story. . . . Mr. Koch delivers his revelations cleverly, by the spoonful. Issues of morality, responsibility and punishment are raised along the way, and a Pinteresque menace lurks under the surface. When savagery takes over, the reader is shocked. But some of Mr. Koch's conclusions are a bit too pat. In the end, the book sits on the digestion less like an over-indulgent "fine dining" experience than Chinese food, which, as we all know, leaves you feeling hungry a couple of hours later. “The Dinner,” Herman Koch’s internationally popular novel, is an extended stunt. Mr. Koch confines his story to one fraught restaurant meal, where malice, cruelty, craziness and a deeply European malaise are very much on the menu. "The Dinner” has been wishfully compared to Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” (and enthusiastically endorsed by Ms. Flynn) for its blackhearted deviltry. But her book, with its dueling narrators, had two vicious but sympathetic voices. Her sneaky spouses were delectable in their evil genius. The Lohmans are indigestible. “The Dinner,” Herman Koch’s internationally popular novel, is an extended stunt. Mr. Koch confines his story to one fraught restaurant meal, where malice, cruelty, craziness and a deeply European malaise are very much on the menu. The four diners can leave the table occasionally, headed to the restrooms or the garden or the handy room of flashback memories. But mostly they sit and seethe at one another as a miserable night unfolds. This book has been widely described as both thriller and chiller, but it really is neither. But it’s the morality of the story that’s really sickening. Welsh is intrigued by a novel reminiscent of The Slap and Carnage Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsDwarsliggers (55)
Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, 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. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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