Herman Koch, author of the provocative The Dinner, is back with a novel about a doctor, an actor, and their families on summer vacation. Some of the themes in that earlier work recur here, primarily the idea that you don't have to scratch a man too deeply to find the savage beneath. Hints are dropped like anvils, as when the doctor refers to "human filth." Whatever else one can say about Koch, there is no denying that he writes novels that demand to be consumed in two or three gulps.
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