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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Graham Greene
from Penguin Classics

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• A Bird's Eye View of 1950's French Colonial Vietnam
  The Quiet American by Graham Greene is about a British foreign correspondent on assignment in Vietnam. His assignment is to report the progress of the fighting between several groups who are trying to take control of the government and dismiss the French from their land. Fowler is a middle aged, opium addicted atheist in love with a young and beautiful Vietnamese orphan girl named Phuong with whom he cohabits.
  Our third main character Pyle is American,young, introverted for the most part and up to... more info

• I was a reporter, I had no real opinions about anything
  So said the main character (and narrator) Fowler about himself in an attempt to thwart his promotion to the position of editor, away from the French war in Indo China, and his mistress Phuong.
  And a true assessment of himself it may have been, if things had remained as they were. But once Pyle, the naïve, quiet American with his eye on the selfsame Phuong, and his dangerous political meddling enters the scene, Fowler ceases to be a mere spectator, and enters the real world of action with all that... more info

• The Quiet American
  I had never read the book but reading it I remembered seeing the movie. The book is riviting, insightful and scary. There is so much said in so few pages. I can see where discussion of the book could be never ending.

• I Read it while in Vietnam! What are the chances?
  I was in Vietnam for Vacation, and I came across this novel in a market store in Saigon. I remember there was a movie, but I had never seen it. I will have to say for a small little simplistic novel there was much to be enjoyed. The novel is narrated by Fowler, the British "OLDER" reporter who loves the space and madness occurring in 1950' Vietnam. Fowler is met by Pyle, an American on humanitarian mission to feed the war ravaged citizens of Vietnam. Pyle admits that he is in love with Fowler's Asian Girl... more info

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