The Sun Walks Down: A Novel [Paperback]

Short-Listed for theWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year byThe Wall Street Journal
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library

The Sun Walks Downis the book Im always longing to find: brilliant, fresh, and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish. Ann Patchett, author ofThe Dutch House

Fiona McFarlanes 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, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemenconfront their relationships, both with one another and with the land?scape they inhabit.

The colonial Australia ofThe Sun Walks Downis noisy with opinions, arguments, longings, and terrors. Its haunted by many godsthe sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever.

Told in many ways and by many voices, Fiona McFarlanes new novel pulses with love, art, and the unbearable divine. It arrives like a vision, mythic and bright with meaning.

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.Fiona McFarlaneis the author ofThe Night Guest(2013) andThe High Places(2016), which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in theNew YorkerandZoetrope: All-Story. She teaches at the University of California, Berkel3-