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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Gaze
Beautifully evoked (The Times)
Original and compelling (TLS)
Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes (Helen Oyeyemi)
Entertaining and affecting (Publishers’ Weekly)
Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade (Orhan Pamuk)
Beautifully evoked (The Times The Times)
Original and compelling (TLS TLS)
Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes (Helen Oyeyemi Helen Oyeyemi)
Entertaining and affecting (Publishers’ Weekly Publishers’ Weekly)
Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade (Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk)
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