Described by Graham Greene as "the only book I have written
just for the fun of it." Travels with My
Aunt is the story of Hanry Pulling, a retired and
complacent bank manager, who meets his septuagenarian Aunt
Augusta for the first time at what he supposes to be his
mother's funeral. She soon persuades Henry to abandon his
dull suburban existence to travel her way—to
Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. Through Aunt
Augusta, one of Greene's greatest comic creations, Henry
joins a shiftless, twilight society; mixes with
hippies, war criminals, and CIA men; smokes pot; and breaks
all currency regulations.
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Originally published in
1970, Travels with My Aunt gives us an
intoxicating entertainment yet also confronts us with some
of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.
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