The Gaze: A daringly funny historical novel exploring what it means to look and be looked at

Shafak, Elif

ISBN 10: 0241201918 / ISBN 13: 9780241201916

Published by Penguin, 2016

About this Item

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 mustache on her face. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 194. . 2015. Reissue. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gaze: A daringly funny historical novel exploring what it means to look and be looked at
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241201918
• ISBN 13: 9780241201916
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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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About the Author

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist whose work has been translated into fifty-five languages. The author of nineteen books, twelve of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's latest novel, The Island of Missing Trees, was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize. Her previous novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize; longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award; and chosen as Blackwell's Book of the Year. She is a Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. Shafak was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize for her contribution to 'the renewal of the art of storytelling.'