The Gaze

By Elif Şafak and Elif Shafak

Book Overview

From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at...

An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up and the woman draws a moustache on her face.

This elegant, unforgettable novel explores our desire to look at others.

'Beautifully evoked' The Times

'Original and compelling' TLS

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241201918
• ISBN13: 9780241201916
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

captivating gaze

This is a wonderful book, probably the best one I have read of Elif Shafak. This is a very well written story with parallel stories in different time that interdigitate to make the whole message stronger. It deals with how other people sees us and the effects that seeing, being seen and not seen and not being seen have in our lives. Secrets that we all have and how they impact on our wish to be seen and be seen are also wonderfully depicted in this novel. If you wish to expore this excellent contemporary Turkish novelist, The Gaze is a good start.