num_pages: 352
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: The Sun Walks Down
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux