{"product_id":"2026600003136-secondhand-a-burnt-out-case","title":"A Burnt-Out Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st english ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of mid-twentieth-century literary fiction, Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case chronicles the spiritual and psychological unraveling of Querry, a world-famous architect who abandons his celebrity and travels deep into the Congo to a remote leper colony, seeking anonymity and an escape from a life that has lost all meaning. With unflinching precision, Greene illustrates the condition of a man so thoroughly emptied of faith, passion, and desire that he mirrors the lepers around him — souls physically consumed by disease, just as Querry has been consumed by a profound inner void. The novel's tone is characteristically Greenean: brooding, morally serious, and suffused with a dark irony that refuses easy consolation. As Querry's carefully guarded isolation is shattered by the intrusions of the outside world — journalists, missionaries, and a dangerously naive admirer — Greene argues that the modern soul cannot simply opt out of the human condition, no matter how far it flees. A searing meditation on faith, celebrity, and the nature of spiritual exhaustion, A Burnt-Out Case stands as one of Greene's most autobiographical and emotionally raw works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792204214491,"sku":"2026600003136-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/02afde6e-fe5a-4a88-a751-1cb2b12224f0.png?v=1779273454","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600003136-secondhand-a-burnt-out-case","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}