Herman Koch's bestselling novel of psychological suspense, The Dinner, has been optioned for an English-language film with Cate Blanchett being tapped to make her directorial debut with it. The adapted screenplay is being written by Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Rampart).
First published in Dutch in 2009 as Het Diner, the book (more details, below) has been translated into 21 languages and has been on the bestseller list here in the US since its publication in 2012. It has been adapted for the Dutch theater, and as a film written and directed by Menno Meyjes, which had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. The Dutch-language film premieres in The Netherlands in November, 2013.
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The Dinner
Herman Koch
A Novel of Psychological Suspense
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.
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