The Dinner : Film Tie-in

'Funny, provocative and exceedingly dark, this is a brilliantly addictive novel that wraps its hands around your throat on page one and doesn't let go.' * S.J. Watson *
'What a tremendous book. I loved every single gripping and strange thing about it.' * M.J. Hyland *
'Herman Koch's The Dinner is riveting, compelling and a deliciously uncomfortable read. Like all great satire it is both lacerating and so very funny. The Dinner got under my skin and punctured all my safe liberal smugness and pieties. Intelligent and complex, this novel is both a punch to the guts and also a tonic. It clears the air. A wonderful book.' -- Christos Tsiolkas
'In this exploration of how two families deal with an explosive event, The Dinner is reminiscent of Christos Tsiolkas's blockbuster The Slap.' -- Stephen Romei * Australian *
'Little wonder this literary degustation is an international bestseller...a cult movie in the making.' * Australian Women's Weekly *
'What a wonderfully awkward, slow-burning, page-turning novel it turned out to be.' * Melbourne Weekly *
'As much as The Dinner is a suspenseful story about teenage cousins Michel and Rick, it is equally the rich portrayal of the characters and their individual views that pin the reader to the page.' * Courier Mail *
'Koch's uncomfortable tale is a wonderful thriller, where the reader's sympathies are forced to switch again and again, and where you race to a final outcome that is anything but what you might expect. Blackly funny, full of sharp edges and hot issues, and compulsively readable. Verdict: feast on this.' * Herald Sun *
'The Dinner is a masterful, disturbing piece of theatre.' * Age/Sydney Morning Herald *
'You'll need a cast-iron stomach to cope with the horrific details, but this meditation on middle-class dilemmas makes compulsive reading.' * North & South *