A Burnt-out Case

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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

Audible STILL has the sequence of chapters wrong!

TWO MONTHS (May 2025 to July 2025) after this has been pointed out to Audible. Graham Greene, A Burnt-out Case. Audible STILL has the sequence of chapters wrong! After Part 4, Chapter 1, there should be Part 4, Chapter 2. Instead the audio jumps to Part 6, Chapter 2.

Chapters missing from audio

Several chapters from the printed text are missing from this audio version. I toggled between the print book and the audio version, only to be frustrated by the omission of at least two chapters in this recorded version.