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  A Burnt-out Case (Vintage books) (Paperback) By (author) Graham Greene, Introduction by Giles Foden

  

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  Short Description for A Burnt-out CaseQuerry, 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.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 01 November 2004
  • Format: Paperback 208 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099478430 ISBN 10: 0099478439
  • Sales rank: 87,602

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Full description for A Burnt-out Case

• 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...