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Summer House with Swimming Pool
by Herman Koch
Summer House with Swimming Pool brings us another set of very flawed and unreliable characters that Herman Koch is wonderful at writing. The main character is Dr. Marc Schlosser. He is a doctor and family man that gives the air of compassion and understanding but underneath he has very little of either of these things. Like in Koch's last novel, The Dinner, this story centers on what a person would do to protect their child. Unlike the previous novel, the child in question is not the attacker but the victim. The reader is left to try to unravel the truth about what happened as well as navigate through a cast of dreadful people. Koch is a master at bringing these people alive in stories that stick with the reader long after the last page is read. The novel can be challenging to get through because these characters and situations often become uncomfortable for the reader. Summer House with Swimming Pool is a great novel and one that I highly recommend to those that enjoy books in which they are not spoon-fed information.