格雷厄姆·格林,英国著名小说家,20世纪最优秀、最多产的作家之一。1904年生于英国,1991年死于瑞士。《文静的美国人》是格林1952年～1955年间写的一部杰出的政治小说,是他以记者身份四次访问越南后的产品。该书2001年由上海译文出版社出版,主万译。20世纪中叶的越南,正值抗法战争后期。二月里的一个夜晚,西贡的气候已开始闷热。英国某报驻越南记者福勒在寓所等待朋友——美国经济援助代表团成员派尔。时过午夜, Graham Greene, a famous British novelist, one of the talentest and most prolific writers of the 20th century. Born in England in 1904, died in Switzerland in 1991. “Quiet American” is an outstanding political novel written by Green between 1952 and 1955, the product of his four trips to Vietnam as a journalist. The book published in 2001 by the Shanghai Translation Publishing House, the main translation. Vietnam in the mid-20th century coincided with the anti-French war. One night in February, the climate in Saigon has started to get hot. Fowler, a British newspaper based in Vietnam, is waiting for his friend at the apartment - Pyle, a member of U.S. economic aid delegation. After midnight,