Ali Shaw





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Ali Shaw

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Ali Shaw is the author of the novels The Man who Rained and The Girl with Glass Feet, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award. He is currently at work on his third novel.




January 1st 1909. Ten-Footed Bear. Tarak told us Wednesday evening that the tenfooted bear lives mostly in the water like a seal. Looks like a polar bear all but the ten legs. When he walks on ice the five feet of each side track after each other so the bear makes a double track like a sled. Walking the bear often gets his legs tangled up; there are so many, he can’t manage them all. Once a...

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Average rating: 3.45 · 3,209 ratings · 686 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
The Girl With Glass Feet
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 2,996 ratings — published 2009 — 25 editions
The Man Who Rained
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions

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Der Mann, der den Regen träumt is published in Germany in January and script5, the book’s publishers, have put together this neat little trailer.



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“Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ”
Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from another man for my wife to fall out of love with me. It baffles me that a simple alignment of eyes can cause so much devastation.”
Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”
Ali Shaw, The Girl With Glass Feet

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