The Sun Walks Down McFarlane Fiona
The Sun Walks Down McFarlane Fiona "The Sun Walks Down is the book I'm always longing to find: brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. I loved it start to finish." --Ann Patchett, author of The…
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The Sun Walks Down McFarlane Fiona
"The Sun Walks Down is the book I'm always longing to find: brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. I loved it start to finish." --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseFiona 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. It is marvelous.
As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly--newlyweds, farmers, mothers, indigenous crackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen--confront their relationships, both with one another and with the land-scape they Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him.