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The Quiet American (1955) is set in Vietnam in the 1950s, during the French colonial struggle against the insurgents. Through the atmosphere of Saigon, Greene creates a tense story of love and political intrigue, with a strong critique of the Vietnam War
Adriana, a beautiful Roman girl from a poor background, wants a normal life, but her mother pushes her into posing for painters and prostitution. Her love affairs lead her through betrayal, violence and corruption to her final resignation.
Young Germaine lives a life filled with high ideals of love, faith, and purity. The novel follows her struggle between her noble dreams and the realities of life in French society at the end of the 19th century.
A documentary-drama in which London, living among the poor of London's East End in 1902, bears poignant witness to the misery, hunger, and humiliation of the lowest strata of English society in Edwardian England.