El Americano Impasible The Quiet American (Spanish Text)
By Graham Greene.
Description
Set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the last days of French colonial rule, THE QUIET AMERICAN was based partly on Graham Greene's own experiences in Vietnam as a correspondent for the London Times. The book's narrator is an English journalist named Fowler who lives in Saigon with his Vietnamese mistress, Phuong, but is unable to convince his Catholic wife to grant him a divorce. Fowler meets Pyle, a young American intelligence agent who talks of setting up a "third force" to oppose both the colonial powers and the Communist rebels. Fowler's growing conviction that P...
ISBN(s)
8447300226, 9788447300228
