The Quiet American
Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece
‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch.
But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-09-947839-3
- EAN
- 9780099478393
- Release date
- 2004
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