num_pages: 432
description: Edward Manners - thirty three and disaffected - escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
language: English
title: The Folding Star
titlecomplete: The Folding Star
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Gay Fiction, Belgium, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 2316
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Fiction
publisher: Vintage