The Quiet American
Saigon love triangle
A 1955 novel by Graham Greene set in 1950s Vietnam, contrasting a world-weary British journalist with an idealistic American aid worker whose naive interventionism causes tragic consequences.
The title has become shorthand for well-meaning American foreign involvement that produces unintended destruction: He's another quiet American, convinced he knows what's best for people he doesn't understand.
- VietnamSoutheast Asian coastal nation
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- rice paddiesFlooded fields for grain
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
Graham Greene · Fowler · war · Cold War · journalist · war correspondent · CIA · idealism · opium · betrayal · 1950s · foreign correspondent · naivety · intrigue · love triangle · Indochina · espionage · foreign intervention
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