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:- 3.0 out of 5 stars from Garrett Hutson -- Fascinating, insightful, but cynical : This is a fascinating look at the intrigue of a place and time that few Americans know much about--Vietnam in the early 1950s, during its struggle for independence from the French, and long before the conflict that brought it to the attention of the American public. The book was also written long before that more famous conflict (1955), so many of the scenes will seem fantastically prescient to a modern American reader. Some of that angered me, as it mirrored the American experience in the Vietnam War so closely, that you realize our leaders in the 1960s had no excuse for not knowing what they were getting us into. The narrator is a cynical British journalist--a bit too cynical for my taste, though he has some amazing insights into human nature. The treatment of the eponymous American is a bit high-handed at times, though sometimes deserved, and sometimes not. There is a smug dismissal of American naivete and meddling that is in part justified in hindsight, and in part seems like unwarranted cultural condescension. It is a well-told story, and it brings out the complications and enigmas of post-WW2 southeast Asia very well. I gained useful insights into the later Vietnam War era, but in the end I was left vaguely unsatisfied. ( Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2018 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from J. H. McKenna -- Best Greene : I re-read this after some years. It's my favorite of Greene's collection. He has an ability to immerse a reader in a story, so much so that even after I left the book for a day or so I never left the characters, who seemed to follow me hither and yon. The humor is subtle and deeply satisfying. Take this book on a cruise or on a trip to a mountain cabin. It's not a long book. You can get it done in a weekend. ( Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016 )
- 1.0 out of 5 stars from Myron Jenkins -- Horrible kindle version of a wonderful book : The dreadful rating has nothing to do with the book itself, which is really excellent, and often very funny. It's one of the great classics of Cold War writing. ( Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2020 )
- from Frank DonnellyTop Contributor: Poetry Books -- TOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICE : A Fascinating Novel About 1950s Vietnam Authored by An Iconic British Author ( 5.0 out of 5 stars )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Sturmey Archer -- The Quiet American : Greene at his best. Capturing the essence of the people fighting for their various causes against the backdrop of 1950's Viet Nam. One's immediate reaction is admiration for Greene's prescience as he, through Fowler, recognizes the folly of the American intervention. This was written years before the open involvement of the Americans. It was even before the French had departed. ( Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2020 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Catlaw71 -- Cannot believe I waited so long to read Graham Greene : Leaving aside your feelings about the Viet Nam conflict, Greene is a truly great writer, who can describe a scene or situation in the fewest of words but with extraordinary effect. I read this because Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer, was reportedly much influenced by it. Greene's book is much better written (but to be fair at the point of writing The Quiet American, Greene was a more experienced novelist than Nguyen is now), and has more layers of moral ambiguities. But I'm still thinking about these books, and will for a long time. ( Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from David K. Warner -- Prescient and Powerful: a masterpiece of engaged fiction : In this most prescient of novels, written between 1952 and 1955 - years which cover the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (although the story itself is set shortly before) - Graham Greene places a three-way love affair against the background of the end of French colonial pretensions in Vietnam (and the emergence of American ones), once again proving himself the master of setting a domestic miniature within a deep political context, while also capturing the topography and ambience of an Asian country gripped by conflict. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 11, 2018 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from DAVID BRYSON -- PLASTICS AND THE GRADUATE : When Dustin Hoffman as the naive young graduate in the film was advised to get into plastics, at least they did not take him down the road to disaster. Greene’s young Harvard man in this story is too green(e) by half, and his innocent credulity makes havoc for more than just himself when he gets out of his depth with his plastics. This novel is set in French colonial Vietnam, shortly before the pivotal fall of Dienbienphu in 1954. As we might expect, the atmosphere is strongly evocative, but with no striving for effect. The patrician Greene has no need for that, and his central narrative of the love triangle blends in effortlessly. It’s really love this time, and the cynical English war correspondent Thomas Fowler is really as completely infatuated with the girl Phuong as the graduate himself, Alden Pyle, is, let loose in Vietnam to spread the American gospel of what Mr Bush used to call demoxy ‘n’ freem. It could all probably be classed as a tragedy of credulity on a big scale: the American attaches have all been inured with the powerful doctrine, even commoner then than now, that the entire world is only waiting to be released into an idealised American universe. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2018 )
- 4.0 out of 5 stars from S Riaz -- The Quiet American : This novel is set during the first Indochina war and growing American involvement in Vietnam, set against the background of French colonialism and witnessed largely through the eyes of Thomas Fowler, a cynical, British journalist. Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years and has been living with Phuong, a young, beautiful, Vietmanese woman, who Fowler loves. Phuong’s sister wants her to marry, but Fowler has a wife in England who is unwilling to divorce him and so he cannot offer her the security that her sister wants. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2020 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Trevor Cobb -- Innocence is a kind of insanity - recommended reading : Greene is undoubtedly one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, his experience as a journalist reflected in his clear, compartmentalised style, with the plot unravelling in a series of cinematic like scenes. The Quiet American is set against the background of the French indo-China war in the early 1950s before the conflict evolved into the Vietnam War. This is a novel about life and death rather than a faithful historical account. The three leading characters are brilliantly compared and contrasted and reflect many of the characteristics of the nations of their birth. Fowler: the British journalist, experienced, cynical, tired, detached. Pyle: the Quiet American, educated, rich, naïve and idealistic. And Phuong: uncomplicated, beautiful but never quite understood by Fowler or Pyle. The Quiet American explores a number of themes including desire, hope and inhumanity, and moral and ethical questions reverberate throughout. The book overflows with insightful quotations; “Innocence is a kind of insanity” “Sooner or later...one has to take sides”... “I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.” Recommended reading. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2018 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Franz Redel -- Prophetic novel . Great masterpiece. : Incredible to think that with this prophetic novel first published in 1955, Greene already predicted the outcome of the Vietnam war. Greene is a master of ethics and theology, and his insights into human nature and motivation are deep and illuminating. Greene is one of the greatest novelists of all time who ironically was never honored with a Nobel prize for literature. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2017 )
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