Burnt Out Case (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 7 days | |Short Description for Burnt Out Case Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of an attack of indifference, no longer finding meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he loses himself in work for the lepers. As he helps the lepers, so he approaches a self-cure.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 07 April 1992
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780140185393 ISBN 10: 0140185399
- Sales rank: 228,516
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Full description for Burnt Out Case
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...

