Book #266 of 2021: The Quiet American by Graham Greene This 1955 novel reads as a prescient (though obviously unheeded) critique of colonialism and American-style foreign intervention, following a journalist and an intelligence officer in the ‘Indochina’ region at the start of the Vietnam War. It draws on author Graham Greene’s own experience as a …
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