The Quiet American
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- 2,49 €
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- 2,49 €
Descrição da editora
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam
"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career. Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas. As young Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.
First published in 1956 and twice adapted to film, The Quiet American remains a terrifiying and prescient portrait of innocence at large.
Críticas de clientes
Vietnam and Introspection
Not the most exciting book, but is was interesting. We follow our main character trough the beginning of the war in Vietnam and his relationship. Throughout we get a glimpse of the horrors of war, of people being seen as simple casualties of war rather than valuable lives. We also see his girlfriend being taken away by a young American.
Out main character acts as though him being in ‘Nam doesn’t mean he has picked a side, but as the story progresses he has to deal with reality and his feelings about it more and more. In the end, he picks a side, he has his happy ending, but cannot help but feel sorry for having picked a side.