One of the mid to late Graham Greene novels, long after his probably more famous classics like Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Power and the Glory, and The Heart of the Matter, this novel is from 1969 and involves a middle aged bank manager on the cusp of retirement going along with his elderly aunt on a series of world travels. Don’t let the prosaic basic plot outline fool you, however. The two are reunited at his mother’s, her sister’s, funeral and when she finds […]