ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Quiet American is a 1955 novel by English author Graham Greene.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Quiet American” is a really interesting and well written novel. It was authored in the 1950s. It is set in Vietnam in the 1950s during fighting that includes the French and predates official American military involvement. The author, Graham Greene is an iconic British author.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, was written in 1955 and set in Vietnam, then the site of a rising local insurgency against French colonial rule.

Detailed explanation-4: -The novel concerns the relationship between the American Alden Pyle, a quiet, naive CIA operative, and the story’s narrator, Thomas Fowler, a world-weary British journalist.

Detailed explanation-5: -Greene wrote The Quiet American in Saigon between March 1952 and June 1955, and William Heinemann published the novel in late 1955.