by William Boyd · Penguin Putnam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140238259
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«The Blue Afternoon» is the mystery and love novel by William Boyd, published by Penguin Putnam in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young architect, is approached by Salvador Carriscant, a stranger who claims to be her father. Through his memories, the story goes back to Carriscant's past in Manila and reconstructs a plot of love and mystery that ends up uniting both in an unexpected journey.
The novel won the Sunday Express Book of the Year in 1993 and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in 1995.
For readers of historical and literary fiction looking for a plot with mystery and a love story in the background.
William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.”
