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(0)Herman Koch
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English
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From its numerous coffee shops where drugs are openly available, to its world-famous Red Light District where prostitutes display themselves in shop windows, Amsterdam is a city where almost anything goes in broad daylight. And yet, this serene city of canals has its dark side as well. In fifteen tales of greed, jealousy and revenge, some of the finest Dutch crime writers-including literary award-winners and international bestsellers-explore the seamy...
2) Angerichtet
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Deutsch
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Der preisgekrönte Bestseller aus den Niederlanden erzählt ein Familiendrama, das um die Fragen kreist: Wie weit darf Elternliebe gehen? Was darf man tun, um seine Kinder zu beschützen? Ein Roman, der ins Herz schneidet.
Zwei Ehepaare - zwei Brüder und ihre Frauen - haben sich zum Essen in einem Spitzenrestaurant verabredet. Sie sprechen über Filme und Urlaubspläne und vermeiden zunächst das eigentliche Thema: die Zukunft ihrer Söhne Michel...
3) Odessa Star
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Fred Moorman ist Ende vierzig und träumt von einem schwarzen Jeep Cherokee und einem neuen, interessanteren Freundeskreis. Sein Leben ödet ihn an. Die Zeiten, als sein inzwischen vierzehnjähriger Sohn noch zu ihm aufschaute, sind lange vorbei und seine Frau denkt laut darüber nach, wie das Leben ohne ihn aussähe. Da trifft Fred Max G. wieder, den er schon in der Schule bewunderte. Max hat alles, was Fred nicht hat: Durchsetzungsvermögen, schöne...
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Deutsch
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Dem Allgemeinarzt Marc Schlosser ist ein Kunstfehler unterlaufen, an dessen Folgen der berühmte Schauspieler Ralph Meier verstorben ist. Schlosser muss sich vor der Ärztekammer rechtfertigen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass er den Schauspieler gut kannte. Vielleicht zu gut. Mit scharfem Witz und genialer Beobachtungsgabe legt Herman Koch gesellschaftliche und familiäre Risse bloß: Ein hoch spannendes, meisterlich konstruiertes Familiendrama über...
5) The dinner
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English
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Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, 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...
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English
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The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Dinner.
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars,...
When a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not exactly upset that Ralph is gone, but as a high profile doctor to the stars,...
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English
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"Once a celebrated writer, M had his greatest success with a suspense novel based on a real-life disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went missing one winter after having a brief affair with a beautiful student of his. The teacher was never found. Upon publication, M's novel was a runaway bestseller, one that marked his international breakthrough. That was years ago, and now M's career is fading. But not when it comes to his bizarre,...
8) The ditch
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English
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"When Robert Walter, popular mayor of Amsterdam, sees his wife toss her head back with laughter while chatting to one of his aldermen at a New Year's reception, he immediately suspects the worst. Despite their long and happy marriage, Robert is convinced that Sylvia is cheating on him--with the respectable alderman who is dedicated to the environment, no less. The man who wants to spoil the capital's skyline with wind turbines. The New Year's reception...
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Italiano
Description
Based on the New York Times best selling novel of the same name, this turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of polite society are tested and two brothers discover just how little they know about each other.
10) The dinner
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense night.
11) The dinner
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When two men commit a crime, their parents meet up for dinner and try to figure out what to do about it.
12) The Dinner
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Nederlands
Description
Menno Meyjes (The Color Purple) brings us a film based upon the New York Times, Best Selling Novel by Herman Koch. Serge knows something, otherwise he would not have made reservations in this fancy restaurant. Babette knows something too, otherwise she wouldn't be crying. Hopefully they won't tell Claire, because she doesn't know anything. And Paul...Paul knows everything. They all avoid the subject they actually should be talking about, their children....