{"product_id":"9781250321756","title":"The Sun Walks Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShort-Listed for the 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Top 10 Best Book of 2023 by \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2023 by Kirkus and Chicago Public Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiona McFarlane","offers":[{"title":"Picador |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-02-13","offer_id":44652710035711,"sku":"9781250321756","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6a88f9bb-8a9a-4874-9849-baf0591ab1d9.jpg?v=1704313049","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781250321756","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}