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The Blue Afternoon

William Boyd

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#660 of 8,085 books · #122 in Historical Fiction

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (1995).

The Blue Afternoon won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant - and that he is her father. In a matter of weeks Kay will join Salvador on an extraordinary journey as they delve back into his past to not only learn the truth behind her own birth, but also to discover the whereabouts of a woman long thought dead - and to uncover the identity of a killer.

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Publisher
Penguin UK
ISBN-13
9780141929774
Topics
Family secrets and identityMystery and murderHistorical settings (1930s LA and the Philippines)

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