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Crown
February 2013
On Sale: February 12, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 0770437850
EAN: 9780770437855
Kindle: B008ZPGDX0
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An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly
suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families
struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives --
all over the course of one meal. 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 polite scrapings of cutlery, the
conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse -- the
banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. 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. As civility
and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far
they are prepared to go to protect those they love. Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an
unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic
of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from
parenting values to pretentious menus to political
convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel
society and asks what each of us would do in the face of
unimaginable tragedy.
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