The Quiet American (Graham Greene)

The Quiet American

Author: Graham Greene
List: Open Option
Category: war
Year of publication: 1955
Pages: 180
Goodreads: The Quiet American

 

 

“Written before the escalation of the Vietnam war this novel explores the impossiblity of being neutral in the early days of the Vietnam conflict.” ~RookReading

 

 


Blurb

“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused,” Graham Greene’s narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous “Quiet American” of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle’s well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler’s motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler’s beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

 


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