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The Blue Afternoon
Los Angeles, 1936. Architect Kay Fischer is approached by an elderly stranger, Salvador Carriscant, who claims to be her father. His appearance overturns what she knows about her family and draws her into a journey across the Pacific as he begins recounting the events that shaped his life in Manila more than three decades earlier.
In the Philippines, Carriscant was a surgeon fascinated by new medical techniques and entangled in a passionate affair while the American colonial city was unsettled by war, occupation and social division. A series of murders deepened the danger around him. As Kay follows the story toward its missing woman and unresolved crime, the novel joins medical history, mystery and romance across two generations.
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