by Graham Greene · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143039020
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«The Quiet American» is Graham Greene's spy novel, published by Penguin Classics in hardback (180 pages, in English).
In Saigon during the Indochina War, cynical British correspondent Thomas Fowler finds himself caught between his young Vietnamese lover and the idealistic American Alden Pyle, sent to the city on a covert mission. Pyle's well-intentioned manoeuvres end in violence, while Fowler, who has lost the woman he loves, questions how far his role as an observer goes. A love and political triangle that anticipates America's involvement in Vietnam.
Centenary edition of Graham Greene with an introduction by Robert Stone. The novel was originally published in 1955.
Ideal for readers interested in classics of English literature, spy novels and stories about the Vietnam conflict.
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
