The DinnerNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture. “Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable.”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act—an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children, and as civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “A European Gone Girl . . . A sly psychological thriller.”—The Wall Street Journal “Brilliantly engineered . . . The novel is designed to make you think twice, then thrice, not only about what goes on within its pages, but also the next time indignation rises up, pure and fiery, in your own heart.”—Salon “You’ll eat it up, with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Koch] has created a clever, dark confection . . . absorbing and highly readable.”—New York Times Book Review “Tongue-in-cheek page-turner.”—The Washington Post “[A] deliciously Mr. Ripley-esque drama.”—O: The Oprah Magazine |
Contents
Section 24 | 151 |
Section 25 | 156 |
Section 26 | 163 |
Section 27 | 166 |
Section 28 | 169 |
Section 29 | 174 |
Section 30 | 185 |
Section 31 | 190 |
Section 9 | 43 |
Section 10 | 50 |
Section 11 | 56 |
Section 12 | 63 |
Section 13 | 74 |
Section 14 | 81 |
Section 15 | 83 |
Section 16 | 89 |
Section 17 | 92 |
Section 18 | 102 |
Section 19 | 113 |
Section 20 | 120 |
Section 21 | 131 |
Section 22 | 141 |
Section 23 | 143 |
Section 32 | 195 |
Section 33 | 197 |
Section 34 | 203 |
Section 35 | 217 |
Section 36 | 228 |
Section 37 | 235 |
Section 38 | 241 |
Section 39 | 253 |
Section 40 | 265 |
Section 41 | 269 |
Section 42 | 273 |
Section 43 | 277 |
Section 44 | 280 |
Section 45 | 284 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
already anymore asked ATM cubicle Babette’s beard Beau bike boys brother Burkina Faso café camera capital punishment cell phone chair Claire Claire’s couldn’t cousin desk dessert dinner doesn’t door Dordogne Dutch everything eyes face Faso father feel felt figure film finally find fingers finish first footage front Fuck garbage garden girl glass grin hair hand happened happy He’s head heard knew later laughing Loire Valley looked Mama manager Men in Black Michel never normal okay parents Paul pinky plate pocket restaurant Rick Scarlett Johansson Serge and Babette Serge Lohman Serge’s Sidney Poitier sleeping sleeping bag smile someone somewhere sound stopped suddenly talk tealight tell There’s things thought told took trying turned voice mail wait walked wasn’t What’s wife window wine Woody Allen you’re YouTube