A Burnt Out Case

Author: Graham Greene

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  • : 26.99 NZD
  • : 9780099478430
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : 01 October 2004
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780099478430
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Description

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of 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...