Book description
His name is Salvador Carriscant and thus begins Kay Fischer's journey
into the past of this beguiling and seductive older man who claims to be
her father. A young architect, struggling to establish her career in Los
Angeles in the 1930s, Kay is initially resistant and skeptical. But,
increasingly, she finds herself trammeled up in his concerns and is
enlisted by him in a bizarre quest that has its origins in the
Philippines, in Manila, in 1902. As he begins slyly to confide in her
she comes to learn about the extraordinary central event in Carriscant's
life, a love affair of uncommon intensity, and, at the same time, a
baffling and compelling mystery of murder and mutilation, rivalry and
betrayal, surgery, flying machines and crystallized violets. William
Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana in 1952. He is the author of five other
novels and a collection of short stories that have been published around
the world in over two dozen languages. In addition, eight of his
screenplays have been filmed, the most recent of which is
A Good Man in Africa,
based on his first novel. He is married and lives in London.
