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4.0

I always forget how much I like Herman Koch until I start reading his books. Like "The Dinner" this book is both familiar and unsettling. Both comfortable and repulsive. Both ordinary and outlandish.

Marc is not necessarily a likable character and certainly not a reliable narrator but his story is compelling.

And just like Koch by the time I finished the book I was wondering just how much of his ordinary life was real.