The Dinner

The Dinner (2009) by Herman Koch. This book is about two brothers and their respective spouses, who meet up for dinner at a swank restaurant. It only emerges slowly that the sons of both couples, acting together, have committed a heinous act that is being kept secret by the two couples. When one of the brothers reveals that he is prepared to go public with the facts about his son's crime, the other brother's wife shows just how far she is willing to go to protect her own son. Although this is a topical and interesting book, it's also rather shallow, and my enjoyment of it was muted by that fact. Grade: B