Saturday, July 26, 2014

The Dinner by Herman Koch

***** 5 stars

Another winner!  Boy, my reading was sure elevated this vacation week. What a pleasure!

Seems I've been on a bit of theme with the darkly comic and the unreliable narrators.  I read Koch's newest book a few weeks ago and really liked it. I think I liked this one even better as it seemed more disciplined.  I liked the structure of the tale around a literal dinner.  The story unfolded gradually and I always like that dawning awareness as we learn, along with the narrator, the true and full story.

Reminded me, too, of Defending Jacob which I read quite some time ago.  The premise of your child having possibly been involved in something awful is downright chilling to me.  Compelling read!

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