By Herman Koch
ISBN-10: 1921921528
ISBN-13: 9781921921520
Paul Lohman and his spouse Claire are going out to dinner with Paul's brother Serge, a charismatic and impressive baby-kisser, and his spouse Babette. Paul is familiar with the night should not enjoyable. The eating place may be over-priced and pretentious, the top waiter will bore on concerning the organically qualified free-range this and artisan-fed that, and virtually every thing approximately Serge, in particular his good fortune, will infuriate Paul.
yet because the night wears on it turns into transparent that tonight's dinner should be much more tricky than traditional. there's something the 2 need to speak about. It's approximately their teenage sons and the very undesirable issues they've been doing.
And it's approximately how some distance units of oldsters will visit store their childrens from the implications in their activities.
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