The Sun Walks Down

De: Fiona McFarlane

Narrado por: Emma Jones

In 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.

2023, Indie Book Awards (Australia) Fiction, Long-listed

2023, Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Short-listed

2023, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Short-listed

2023, Queensland Literary Awards, Short-listed

2023, ARA Historical Novel Prize Adult, Long-listed

2023, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Short-listed

2023, The Age Book of the Year Award Fiction, Short-listed

2024, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Fiction, Short-listed

©2022 Fiona McFarlane (P)2022 Bolinda Publishing

Reseñas de la Crítica

'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish.' (Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake)

'Gorgeous storytelling and superb characters ... Fiona McFarlane is an extraordinary writer, one of the best working today.' (Michelle de Kretser, author of Scary Monsters)

‘The Sun Walks Down is, quite simply, the best novel I've ever read about 19th century Australia. A tense search for a lost child unfolds with rising dread against a landscape of harsh and radiant beauty, amid lives as tangled as barbed wire.’ (Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author)

‘The Sun Walks Down is an exceptional, multi-layered historical novel with a beautifully styled plot. The power with which Fiona McFarlane evokes the place and time is extraordinary – a gorgeously written book.’ (Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock)