Lunch with the Generals

By Derek Hansen

Book Overview

Celebrating 10 years of Lunch with Derek Hansen - a new edition of his bestselling first Lunch novel. Ramon, self-styled master storyteller, has steered his listeners down a sinister path littered with love and betrayal, secret police and death squads. But as the Argentinian's tale nears its startling conclusion, his audience is struck with horror at the possibility that Ramon's clever invention is nothing more than the cunningly disguised chronicle of his own shadowy past. Is Ramon a gifted artist of the imagination or the perpetrator of a terrible act of revenge that defies all forgiveness? 'Hansen is a great novelist. Only the bravest and most confident writer could grant his characters such intelligence and insight and still remain in command' - West Australian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0732275423
• ISBN13: 9780732275426
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Aust
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 1.0" x 4.5"

Customer Reviews

Subtly spellbinding

I read this a few years ago and still recall how effectively the narrator draws you in. A story of four friends who meet every Thursday in the (now) trendy innerwest suburb of Leichhardt, known to local residents as Sydney's Little Italy. Through powerful storytelling both the characters, and the reader, travel from entertainment to realization that each of us has a life-journey, which can appear banal ...or bizarre ...depending more on our current perspective, than the story itself. A worthwhile read, not everything or everyone is as they first appear.