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Title: Burnt-Out Case
Condition: New
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140185399
EAN: 9780140185393
ISBN: 9780140185393
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction
Release Date: 07/04/1992
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 196mm
Item Length: 130mm
Item Width: 14mm
Item Weight: 170g
Book Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
Release Year: 1992
Description: 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. Then the white community finds out who Querry is...

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