'In an extremely penetrating manner, Herman Koch describes the fortunes and misfortunes of the fossilised teaching staff with its false cheerfulness and hypocritical belief in the ‘Montanelli Method'.' De Ster

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Save Us, Maria Montanelli

‘Koch proved himself a master at recording absurd trains of thoughts and slapstick situations. Both painful and hilarious at the same time.’ NRC HANDELSBLAD

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Odessa Star

Een spannende roman over de liefde voor een jonge actrice, de verdorven filmwereld en de kunst van het thuisblijven. VPRO

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Een film met Sophia

Koch commands his metier with an effortless superiority. De Volkskrant

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Finse dagen

‘Herman Koch shows brilliantly how you can see things that might not be there at all, how your imagination can run away with you. The Ditch is an ode to the imagination.’ **** Het Parool

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The Ditch

‘A novel that has become a moral question around the world.’ La Repubblica (Italy)

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The Dinner

‘Koch demonstrates his great narrative talent.’ DE TELEGRAAF

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Dear Mr M.

‘The witty new novel by Herman Koch' MAMA

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Summer House with Swimming pool

‘Should Tom Sanders disregard that advice? Or should he tackle his son about his behaviour? That is the central dilemma in Easy Living, and Koch gets a devilish kick out of making Tom Sanders vacillate between these two options, and gets an even greater kick out of pushing him into a corner.’ Parool

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Easy Living

‘Anyone who really wants to understand Koch’s popular novels should start with these stories.’ NRC Handelsblad

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A Brief History of Deceit

‘Koch has outdone himself. His heroine is beautiful, tragic and believable.’ De Groene Amsterdammer

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Thinking of Bruce Kennedy

‘War at Last is a book with a headstrong protagonist who, with all his fears and thoughts, quickly wins over the reader. The images are beautiful and powerful. The book’s whimsicality is a large part of its charm.’ Elsevier

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War at Last

‘A novel both hilarious and poignant that turns everything on its head so often that you end up not knowing which is which: fiction or reality.’ GPD

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Eating with Emma