# 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: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4018-539-3
- Pages: 208
- Published: 1992-04-07
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## 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...