Loved itgorgeous atmosphere and spectacular economical prose I am fat medically recommend it definitely
The Quiet American (1940)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive One of Graham Greene's best works. The story is set at the time of the French war against the Viet Cong and tells the story of liberal British journalist Thomas Fowler, his mistress Phuong, and their relationship with American idealist Pyle. The latter is an earnest young man indocrinated with geo-political theory and whose attempts to shape the world to American ideals ends in his own personal tragedy and drastically alters the lives of the other two participants. Written before the US involvement in Vietnam this is a strangely prophetic work and seriously encapsulates the British viewpoint towards that conflict. A beautifully written book and highly recommended.
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Loved itthe quiet american by graham greene a great study of how the west fails in its relations to other cultures because of all the assumptions it brings with itself it is a wonderful novel studying and exploring some of the consequences of guilt the way of our actions whether we can truly really interpret our own motives in what we do it's a wonderful book on so many fronts and has possibly the best final line i've read this year