(Ambo Anthos, 2003, 304 pagina's)

It’s a standard literary trope: an unremark­able man starts to fantasise about the gangster lifestyle, gets in with the wrong crowd and plunges himself into ruin. But in his fourth novel, Herman Koch presents his own twisted take on this familiar plotline: his protagonist Fred Moorman, stranded in a meaningless job and a joyless marriage is anything but a pitiful victim.

(Ambo Anthos, 2006, 192 pagina's)

When it comes to protagonists, Herman Koch delights in dishing up men who have at least one screw loose. Thinking of Bruce Kennedy is different: the novel that directly preceded The Dinner centres on a female character who, in many respects, is perfectly normal.

(Ambo Anthos, 2009, 301 pagina's)

Vier mensen. Een diner. Een onontkoombare beslissing. Als een filmtrailer wordt de nieuwe roman van Herman Koch aangekondigd op de achterflap. De lezer wordt niet teleurgesteld: het verhaal van de vader die het beste wil voor zijn kind ontvouwt zich als een strak geregisseerd familiedrama met zwarte kantjes, waarin telkens iets meer van de onderliggende werkelijkheid wordt getoond, geheel volgens de regels van de vertelkunst. Hoe ver gaat de vader in het beschermen van zijn zoon als blijkt dat die iets volkomen ontoelaatbaars heeft uitgehaald? Ver, is het antwoord.

(Ambo Anthos, 2011, 381 pagina's)

Doctors are unassailable. Their patients, with all their secrets, are delivered up to them body and soul. Marc Schlosser, the central character in Herman Koch’s Summerhouse with Swimming Pool, is a family doctor to the rich and famous, and behind his mask of solicitude a heartless cynic.

(Ambo Anthos, 2014, 430 pagina's)

Following his ruthless dissections of the hypocrisy of the moneyed classes and corruption in the medical profession, Herman Koch turns his dystopian gaze on the literary world. In his new novel, Dear Mr M. he tells the tale of a fading writer held grimly to account by a neighbour with a score to settle. Did Reckoning, the novel that cemented Mr M’s literary success all those years ago, culpably distort the facts of a mysterious missing persons case?

(Ambo Anthos, 2016, 319 pagina's)

Herman Koch’s latest novel revolves around Robert Walter, the Mayor of Amsterdam, a man faced with a wide array of responsibilities and interests. As always in Koch’s novels, his lead character’s reliability soon begins to reveal its first flaws.

(Ambo Anthos, 2020, 288 pagina's)

Herman Koch became known for his plot-driven literature, full of page-turning suspense and the seductive lure of evil. They’re thrillers and situation comedies at the same time, in which Koch castigates the latest well-intentioned trends. With this new novel, he opts for a different, more autobiographical approach.

(Ambo Anthos, 2021, 276 pagina's)

Herman Koch is known for his plot-driven literature, full of page-turning suspense and the seductive lure of evil. His books are exciting situational comedies in which Koch castigates the latest well-intentioned trends. His latest novel, Starring Sophia, lampoons the pretentious world of cinema and the arts, while the reader is left in the dark for some time about the true nature of the relationship between an acclaimed director and an up-and-coming actress.