Chinese Summary/中文概要： 擁有玻璃雙腳的女孩是ㄧ個愛情故事，但故事的內容不只是ㄧ對男女如何陷入愛河，而是更深層的：
關於愛的力量、愛的極限與…愛上之後伴隨而來後果的故事

艾達的身體慢慢地由腳開始變成玻璃…
她回到St Hauda’s Land-------這場改變一開始發生的地方，她認為根治的解藥藏在此。這時艾達遇見一位年輕的獨居者--邁達斯。邁達斯長久以來一直活在自己的象牙塔中，但當他遇見悲傷的艾達時，不禁深深被艾達不屈於命運的堅韌所吸引…
他努力幫助艾達適應命運的安排，而艾達也逐漸打開了他的心結，於是，他們相愛了…
此刻他們最需要的就是時間-----而時間的流逝往往也是飛快的。他們能否找到最終解決的辦法？
The Girl with Glass Feet不僅是一本引人矚目的幻想小說，更是一部動人的愛情故事。(Sandy & Kate)

Awards/获奖情况： 快報！此書昨晚榮獲Desmond Elliot 獎
Ali Shaw won the Desmond Elliot Prize last night for THE GIRL WITH GLASS FEET.
此書獲得英國《衛報》首作獎（The Guardian First Book Award）提名
-- On top of the Guardian First Book Award nomination

版權已售9國：
北美版權由Henry Holt競價買下;
瑞典以pre-emptive offer買下版權 （6位數字）
西班牙以pre-empt買下版權
義大利、以色列、土耳其、芬蘭、波蘭

The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw has now been sold in 18 languages, including Serbia, Romania and Indonesia… still some gaps left, though!
Reviews
"Fantastically imagined.... The hybrid form of the book—fairy tale, myth, psychological realism and fantasy—impresses. But Shaw’s most delightful offerings are the vivid details he provides to make the magical real.... As Ida turns to glass, Midas must continue his own transformation, from hardened to human. 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."---Robin Romm, New York Times Book Review

"Ali Shaw has created a memorable addition to [the] fabulist pantheon in his gorgeous first novel, The Girl with Glass Feet.... Over the course of this eerie, bewitching novel, the mixture of love and grief and the imminence of death become as memorable as Ida’s mysterious, dreadful transformation and Midas’s more achingly human one ... Shaw acknowledges the influence of writers like Andersen, Kafka and Borges (Shaw’s menagerie of perfectly detailed, marvelous creatures could have stepped from the pages of "The Book of Imaginary Beings"). But it’s Andersen’s melancholy tales, steeped in loss and a brooding sense of fatedness, that shimmer around the edges of The Girl with Glass Feet. Every character in this novel yearns for a love that seems just out of reach: Midas’s unhappy parents; Henry Fuwa; Carl Maulsen, who loved Ida’s mother; Emiliana, the island woman who might have a cure for Ida’s illness; Ida herself—all of them are bound by threads of betrayal and desire and hope, until Fate cuts those threads, calmly and without remorse."---Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post

"The Girl with Glass Feet is a love story, not just about two people falling in love, but also about love itself: its power, its limits, and its consequences.... Although Shaw’s novel is set in the present, everything’s turned askew, resulting in a world that is at once banal—the car won’t start; the coffee’s getting cold—and fantastical—glass feet; glass hearts. Shaw makes the crucial decision to leave the human emotions and relationships in the realm of the believable, while embedding them in terrain that is ever so slightly surreal. Somehow it’s never implausible. Shaw is at his best when describing the fantastical world he’s created. His language manages to be poetic and economical.... The look, the sound, and the scent of St. Hauda’s Land stay with you after turning the last page of this beautiful novel."---Buzzy Jackson, The Boston Globe

"Ali Shaw’s engrossing and moving debut novel ... is a story of a strange land and its strange inhabitants, but at heart it’s a sincere but unsentimental love story.... The joy that Ida and Midas share, after Midas takes those first risky steps toward love, is so beautifully captured that their happiness beats back the drear and shadows.... The dreamy atmosphere curls around you until you see, hear and smell the moors and bogs.... The ending bridges the gap between fairy tales old and new."---Lisa McLendon, Wichita Eagle

"The cold northern islands of St. Hauda’s Land are home to strange creatures and intertwining human secrets in Shaw’s earnest, magic-tinged debut.... Both love story and dirge, Shaw’s novel flows gracefully and is wonderfully dreamlike, with the danger of the islands matched by the characters’ dark pasts."---Publishers Weekly