02207cam a2200385 i 4500 620029513 TxAuBib 20230127120000.0 220923t20232022||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022044381 9780374606237 HRD 28.00 0374606234 HRD 28.00 (OCoLC)1310768011 TxAuBib rda McFarlane, Fiona, 1978- The sun walks down / Fiona McFarlane. First American edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. ©2022. 336 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in 2022 by Allen and Unwin, Australia"--Title page verso. "The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"-- Provided by publisher. n September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly--newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen--explore their own relationships with the complex landscape and unsettling history of the Flinders Ranges. The colonial Australia of The Sun Walks Down is unfamiliar, multicultural, and noisy with opinions, arguments, longings and terrors. It's haunted by many gods--the sun among them, rising and falling on each day that Denny could be found, or lost forever. 20230205. jz. Missing children Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Country life Australia Fiction. South Australia History 19th century Fiction. Novels. Historical fiction.