# A Burnt-out Case

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- Book: [A Burnt-out Case](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/a-burnt-out-case) ([A Burnt-out Case.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green/a-burnt-out-case.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-green)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9947-843-0
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2004-10-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN 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 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, will ever be taken as innocent...