{"product_id":"the-sun-walks-down-9781250321756","title":"The Sun Walks Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-Listed for the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Dutch House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiona McFarlane's blazingly brilliant new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 Fairly--newlyweds, farmers, mothers, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, artists, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen--confront their relationships, both with one another and with the land-scape they inhabit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe colonial Australia of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Walks Down\u003c\/i\u003e is noisy with opinions, arguments, longings, and terrors. It's haunted by many gods--the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in many ways and by many voices, Fiona McFarlane's new novel pulses with love, art, and the unbearable divine. It arrives like a vision, mythic and bright with meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona McFarlane\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Guest \u003c\/i\u003e(2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe High Places \u003c\/i\u003e(2016), which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599897465106,"sku":"9781250321756","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17662fd4-3628-4ad2-8843-21801e41b4f1.jpg?v=1774449664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sun-walks-down-9781250321756","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}