Greene, Graham (, 1904-1991)

A burnt-out case / Graham Greene - New York : Penguin Books :1977, c1960 - 198 p. ; 20 cm.

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. The the white community finds out who Querry is...


English.

9780140185393


Lepers ----Fiction
Burn-out ----Fiction


Congo ----Fiction


Mystery fiction

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