by Graham Greene · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099478393
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«The Quiet American» is Graham Greene's political novel, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (192 pages, in English).
In 1950s Indochina, cynical British correspondent Fowler meets Alden Pyle, a young CIA idealist who arrives to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As Pyle's efforts begin to cause violence, Fowler debates whether to intervene or look away, and whether he does so for politics, for love, or for something more intricate.
Vintage Classics (Penguin Random House) edition published in 2004, with an introduction by Zadie Smith; the work was originally published in 1955.
For readers of modern classics and politically charged fiction; the BBC included it among the 100 novels that shaped our world.
Henry Graham Greene was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.
