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A Burnt-Out Case

A Burnt-Out Case

Greene, Graham

Paperback

Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0140185399
ISBN13: 9780140185393
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Apr 7 1992
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.14 Depth: 7.78
Language: English
Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a burnt-out case, a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...

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