![]() ![]() Of course I’m well aware that, in the better restaurants, quality takes precedence over quantity, but there are voids and then there are voids. The first thing that struck you about Claire’s plate was its vast emptiness. Or, as our often witty and slightly sneering narrator puts it when his wife’s appetiser arrives: As you might expect from its title and the naming convention of the sections, it’s set in a restaurant - one of those fancy, upmarket nouvelle cuisine type restaurants, where there is more white plate on show than food. The book, which is set in Amsterdam, is divided into five parts - Aperitif, Appetiser, Main Course, Dessert, and Digestif - across 46 relatively short chapters. Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.Īppearances can be deceptive and so it is with Herman Koch’s rather dark and delicious novel, The Dinner, which looks like a simple story that unfolds over the course of a family dinner, but which turns out to be so much more than that. Fiction – paperback Atlantic Books 311 pages 2012. ![]()
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