Duel Duet : Selected Stories

Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote extraordinary short stories. Here some of the best have been arranged into pairs - to be read as a duel or duet - by novelist and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li. Twenty-two of Greene's very best stories are collected here, each of them bearing the hallmark themes that characterise his great novels: innocence and vengeance, love and hate, pity and violence. Writer and Greene aficionado, Yiyun Li, has arranged the stories into pairs, to be read together in contrast or in harmony - as a duel or a duet. In doing so Li draws out the extraordinary power in Greene's work, creating an ingenious new perspective on a writer we thought we knew. Unexpected, surprising and wide-ranging, this is the short fiction of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most adored storytellers, revealing his brilliance as never before. `No twentieth-century writer had a subtler mind for human comparison' Zadie Smith`Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature' John le Carr�'One of the most important British writers of the twentieth century' Daily Telegraph`A superb storyteller' New York Times`One of the finest writers of any language' Washington Post`One of our greatest authors' IndependentSELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY YIYUN LI