num_pages: 324
description: Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love.
language: English
title: The Blue Afternoon
titlecomplete: The Blue Afternoon
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Modern, Literature, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3043
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year
publisher: Penguin Putnam