The Sun Walks Down

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Long ago, in the arid middle of South Australia, a boy wanders into the desert. His name is Denny. When a dust storm sweeps the landscape bare, the boy is nowhere to be found. Not in the yard, where his mother is hanging the laundry. Not up and over the red hill. Not in nearby Fairly, where his sisters-intrepid Cissy, languid Joy, and the others-are attending the wedding of the German girl and her Constable. And so the search begins.What follows is an epic journey through Colonial Australia in search of a lost child. There is a Swedish painter determined to paint the sky. There is Billy, the hired hand. There is Cissy, humiliated by love. There are the many people who long predate the British. There is the landscape. There is the earth.Fiona McFarlane's The Sun Walks Down is a mythic, visionary tale of history, love, art, and the unbearable divine. It is a prodigious novel about the unsettling forces of colonial power, and it is a tremendous achievement.