Answer:
To describe the land as dry and barren.
Explanation:
In the first paragraph of "The Setting Sun and the Rolling World, the word" sunblasted" is used to describe the land as dry and barren. Old Musoni who had been tilling the land so hard for so long was anxious and hoping for rain and relief.
The word "sunblasted" gives the readers the idea that the land had received so much of sunlight and heat from the sun that all the plants and crops have died. Consequently making the land dry and barren.
