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The Quiet American tells the tale of a love triangle between a young Vietnamese girl Phuong, her older English lover Thomas Fowler (who is also our narrator, and who bears more than a passing resemblance to Greene himself, who was – like Fowler – a foreign war correspondent in French Indochina during the early 1950s), and the naive, idealistic “quiet” American Alden Pyle. The book also portrays the early days of America meddling in Vietnam for geopolitical power and influence, flexing their newly earned global influence in the afterglow of victory in WWII, with no attention paid to the devastation caused by their actions. So, The Quiet American tells two stories. Or, is it only one…?