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The Man Who Rained Main Edition
Author(s): Ali Shaw (Author)
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2012
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780857890320
- ISBN-13: 9780857890320
Book Description
From the Costa Prize shortlisted-author of The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical novel of love, discovery and nature.
The Man Who Rained is a work of lyrical, mercurial magic and imagination, a modern-day fable about the elements of love.
When Elsa’s father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape – from New York, her job, her boyfriend – to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart.
For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an aeroplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received many a pilgrim, and young Elsa becomes its latest – drawn to this weather-ravaged backwater, this place rendered otherworldly by the superstitions of its denizens.
In Thunderstown, they say, the weather can come to life and when Elsa meets Finn Munro, an outcast living in the mountains above the town, she wonders whether she has witnessed just that. For Finn has an incredible secret: he has a thunderstorm inside of him. Not everyone in town wants happiness for Elsa and Finn. As events turn against them, can they weather the tempest – can they survive at all?
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is such an imaginative novel, written with such attention to words, and such a sense of wonder, that those who savour such skills will find themselves thoroughly transported. I have not read anything like it for a long while.” —Guardian
“Fantastically imagined. . . . The hybrid form of the book–fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy–impresses. . . . The end of the book, saturated with color and emotion, is risky and brave like the message it imparts. Only a heart of glass would be unmoved.” —New York Times Book Review on The Girl with Glass Feet
