The Quiet American - Graham Greene 1959 Foreign Languages Publishing House Moscow vintage hardback

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Condition: Acceptable: Signs of wear and consistent use. Boards and spine have some fading but interior is clean, bright and unmarked. See images for the condition of this book.

PLEASE NOTE: First Russian Edition (First Thus). The Text Of The Novel Is In English. The Preface And Phrase Dictionary At The End Are In Russian. 

Blurb: 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.