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Title: Quiet
American, the
Author: Graham Greene
Genre: fiction
Rating: 
Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle are friends against their will in a time of war.
Fowler is a British journalist who won't take sides and Pyle is "the quiet American" with
his own agenda who seems like a young and naive man.
At the beginning of the book Fowler learns that Pyle is dead. The rest of the
book is the time that Fowler and Pyle knew each other, told by Fowler. We get to
know how they met, how Pyle takes Fowler's girl Phuong, how Pyle saves Fowler
from being killed and how (besides all this) they are destined to get to know
each other.
It seems like a rather easy story and it is written that way, but when you read
closer you'll see parallels between different storylines, you'll see how people
(have to) behave in wartime and you'll see how in the end Fowler has to take
sides and how hard it is for him, because he knows that when you takes sides you
automatically affect other lives and that is exactly what he does. Now he has to
live with it.
It is a very good book, but it becomes that book when you read it more then
once I think. Very interesting.
If
you liked this book, you should try:
Tenth man, the
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