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The Sun Walks Down
- Narrated by: Emma Jones
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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The Sun Walks Down
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Publisher's Summary
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 Fiction, Long-listed
2023, Walter Scott Prize, Short-listed
2023, Australian Book Industry Award 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
Critic Reviews
"Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvelous. I loved it start to finish." (Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House)
"Gorgeous storytelling and superb characters... Fiona McFarlane is an extraordinary writer, one of the best working today." (Michelle de Kretser, author of Scary Monsters)
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-01-2023
Beautiful, multilayered writing.
McFarlane gives voice to diverse characters not usually represented. For me plot of the lost boy is just a backdrop to unpacking the experiences and attitudes of Australia's colonisation. Stunning figurative language throughout weaves descriptions of the land, sky and people at times funny, at times hyperreal, at times supernatural. Sadly I didn't always believe the narrator, but probably just me.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- busby
- 24-04-2023
Promising
“Australia is the country of lost children”, quoth Bruce Chatwin…. This is a fine novel albeit too long. It has an impeccable sense of character and a middling sense of place. It could be more compelling but I look forward to the author’s great promise. It’s reasonably read bar the occasional mispronunciation. Thanks.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-2023
Annoying narration.
A ramble of uttering that brought out great impatience to get on with the story. I wanted to like it. I wanted to stay deep in the story … but I couldn’t. Irritation and drifting off thinking of other things to the point I lost the point! And back I would go to find out where I was up to! Too many times. Care factor became zero.
Sorry to say but it is true. Still searching for that next great read / listen.
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