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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...

© Graham Greene 1960 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

 Christian Fiction Classics Classics & Allegories Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Africa
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I disliked that I think in part 4, there was a mistake. and there was a chapter from part 6 in there. so it really messed with my listening experience. you should fix that. overall I like the language and nature narratives, but those are few. the story is quite boring.

burn out is also an illness, not just leprosy

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