by Alan Hollinghurst · Random House UK · tapa dura · ISBN 9780701159139
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«The Folding Star» is Alan Hollinghurst's novel, published by Random House UK in hardcover (320 pages, in English).
Edward Manners, a 33-year-old British teacher, arrives in a small Flemish town to teach English and falls in love with Luc, one of his students. Amid relationships with other men, he delves into the world of symbolist painter Edgard Orst and returns to England, where a funeral confronts him with his past. A novel about desire, identity and loss.
Published in 1994, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Lambda Literary Award in the gay fiction category.
For readers of literary fiction interested in LGBT narrative and stories set in Belgium.
Sir Alan James Hollinghurst is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator. He won the 1989 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1994 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2004, he won the Booker Prize for his novel The Line of Beauty. Hollinghurst is credited with having helped gay-themed fiction to break into the literary mainstream through his seven novels since 1988.
