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When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets off on a voyage. Arriving anonymously at a leper colony in the Congo, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, however blameless, will ever be taken as innocent.
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A Burnt-Out Case, Graham Greene
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- Released
- 1966
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- Title
- A Burnt-Out Case
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Graham Greene
- Publisher
- Watson & Viney
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Paperback
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Classics, British Literature, Faith, English Literature, Africa, Loneliness, Searching for the meaning of life, Hospitals, Monks, Life Crisis, Social Differences, Leprosy, Loss of Privacy
- First published
- 1961
- Original title
- A Burnt-Out Case
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets off on a voyage. Arriving anonymously at a leper colony in the Congo, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation. Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony. However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, however blameless, will ever be taken as innocent.