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PublishedVintage Classics, October 2004 |
ISBN9780099478430 |
FormatSoftcover, 224 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.4cm |
A tense, powerful novel about second chances and the inescapable past.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODEN
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...
