The Novel: The Dinner by Herman Koch

3. How did your opinion of Paul and Serge shift throughout the novel? At which point do you start suspecting that your narrator is unreliable?
4. How might the story line have unfolded if it had been told from Serge’s point of view?

5. Although the book most likely falls in the genre of a psychological thriller, it offers a somewhat behind-the-scenes criticism of the upper middle-class Dutch society. What social flaws does the book expose?