The Blue Afternoon

Name: The Blue Afternoon
Rating: 4 (2154 reviews)
Author: William Boyd

Authors: William Boyd
Series:
Type: Novel
Genres: Literary fiction
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Rating: 4 based on 2,154 reviews
Release Date: February 28, 1995
Print length: 367 pages (Hardcover)

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About the book

In the 1930s, Kay Fischer is a modernist architect. When she is approached by a stranger claiming to be her father, she is uncertain how to react. But as he pursues her, she finds herself drawn to him and when he asks her to accompany him on a mysterious pilgrimage to Lisbon, she accepts.

Accolades

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction 1995

About the author

William Boyd

William Boyd, a Ghanaian-born author, was raised in both Ghana and Nigeria before pursuing his education at the prestigious universities of Nice, Glasgow, and Oxford. With seven novels under his ...