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Book SynopsisShort-Listed for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library
The Sun Walks Down is the book I'm always longing to find: brilliant, fresh, and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish. Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
Fiona McFarlane's blazingly brilliant new novel, The Sun Walks Down, tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia.
In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairlynewlyweds, farmers, mothers, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, art
