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Herman Koch

Dutch writer Herman Koch on his bestselling novel The Dinner.

This month World Book Club talks to bestselling Dutch writer Herman Koch whose hugely controversial and entertaining novel The Dinner took the literary world by storm five years ago. Since then, it has not left the bestseller lists in its native Holland.

The Dinner explores a contemporary moral dilemma when two couples meet in a fashionable restaurant to discuss their children’s involvement in a horrendous crime. How far will a parent go to protect their son? The answer that gradually emerges seems to be very far indeed.

Hear Herman Koch, Harriett Gilbert and readers in the studio in London and around the world discuss The Dinner - and confess what they might have done in similar circumstances!

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50 minutes

Last on

Wed 5 Nov 2014 09:05GMT

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Nov 2014 20:05GMT
  • Wed 5 Nov 2014 09:05GMT

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