A Burnt Out Case

by Graham Greene
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Centenary edition with a new introduction by Giles Foden.

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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...

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"No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene" - Time

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