With a new introduction by Giles Foden
When Querry, a famous architect, no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life, he goes to work at a Congo leper village where, as he loses himself in work for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is.
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“Mr. Greene’s extraordinary power of plot-making, of suspense and of narration…moves continuously both in time and space and in emotion.” – The Times
"Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature.” -- John Le Carré
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When Querry, world-famous architect, no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art, he sets off on a voyage to a leper colony in the Congo.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1961
- ISBN 10 0670197157
- ISBN 13 9780670197156
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages248
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