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The sun walks down / Fiona McFarlane.

Author: McFarlane, Fiona, 1978- author.

Edition Statement:First American edition.

ImprintNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Imprint2022

Description336 pages ; 24 cm

Note:"Originally published in 2022 by Allen and Unwin, Australia."--Title page verso.

Note: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.



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McFarlane, Fiona, 1978- author.
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Dust storms -- Fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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