by Graham Greene · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437606828
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«El americano tranquilo» is Graham Greene's political novel, published by Ediciones Cátedra in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Saigon during the Indochina War, the novel follows British journalist Thomas Fowler, young Vietnamese woman Phuong, and idealistic American Alden Pyle. Greene interweaves the love triangle with a reflection on innocence, political interference, and the moral consequences of colonialism in Vietnam.
It originally appeared in 1955. The present edition, published in 2003, is number 85 of Cátedra's Letras Universales collection and is edited by Fernando Galván.
For readers of political fiction and contemporary fiction, particularly stories about Southeast Asia and the colonial period.
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
