Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin A Burnt-Out Case, (Paperback)

from kaitanya64

This book was a little too dark and haunting for me, but very well written. The main character, Querry, is a world famous architect and womanizer who attempts to "disappear" from the world by retre...

from TheAmpersand

A very solid novel set in the Congo at the tail end of Belgian rule there in which Querry, a prominent architect who specialized in Catholic churches, shows up at a leper colony in the middle of no...

from Eamonn12

As usual with Graham Greene, the symbolism is complex. Even the title, 'A Burnt-Out Case', is laden with a two-fold significance. The novel is set in a leper colony where the term is used to descri...

from whirled

Another competent 'stranger in a strange land' novel from Greene, this time set in a leper colony. Finding that a string of professional plaudits and willing lovers no longer gratifies him, British...

from mimal

summer-2013, tbr-busting-2013, afr-congo, catholic, plague-disease Read from August 13 to 16, 2013 a burnt-out case (1960) gbox> fraudio> rosado> read by richard morant summer 2013> tbr busting 201...