"In which country is Graham Greene's ""The Quiet American"" set?"
The Quiet American Miramax shelved the film for a year. The Quiet American The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War. A subplot concerns a love triangle between Fowler, an American CIA agent named Alden Pyle, and Phuong, a young Vietnamese woman The novel implicitly questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s and is unique in its exploration of the subject topic through the links among its
The Human Factor (Graham Greene book) The Human Factor (Graham Greene book) The Human Factor is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into the 1979 film "The Human Factor", directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. Maurice Castle is an aging bureaucrat in the British secret service MI6. Married to a black African woman with whom he fell in love during his previous stint in apartheid South Africa, he now lives a quiet life in the suburbs and looks forward to retirement. As the book begins, a leak has been traced to the African section in London