The Gaze
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A new title from the author of The Flea Palace shortlisted for the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction and chosen for Waterstone’s 2005 Summer Reading promotion.
In her prize-winning novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing makeup, and the woman draws a moustache on her face.
The couple deal with the gaze of passers-by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head-on, even compiling his own ‘Dictionary of the Gaze’ to show the powerful effects a simple look can have.
The narrative of The Gaze is intertwined with the dwarf’s dictionary entries and the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s as Shafak explores the damage which can be done by our simple desire to look at other people.
In her prize-winning novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing makeup, and the woman draws a moustache on her face.
The couple deal with the gaze of passers-by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head-on, even compiling his own ‘Dictionary of the Gaze’ to show the powerful effects a simple look can have.
The narrative of The Gaze is intertwined with the dwarf’s dictionary entries and the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s as Shafak explores the damage which can be done by our simple desire to look at other people.
A new title from the author of The Flea Palace shortlisted for the Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction and chosen for Waterstone’s 2005 Summer Reading promotion.
In her prize-winning novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing makeup, and the woman draws a moustache on her face.
The couple deal with the gaze of passers-by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head-on, even compiling his own ‘Dictionary of the Gaze’ to show the powerful effects a simple look can have.
The narrative of The Gaze is intertwined with the dwarf’s dictionary entries and the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s as Shafak explores the damage which can be done by our simple desire to look at other people.
In her prize-winning novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing makeup, and the woman draws a moustache on her face.
The couple deal with the gaze of passers-by in different ways. The woman wants to hide away from the world, while the man meets them head-on, even compiling his own ‘Dictionary of the Gaze’ to show the powerful effects a simple look can have.
The narrative of The Gaze is intertwined with the dwarf’s dictionary entries and the story of a bizarre freak-show organized in Istanbul in the 1880s as Shafak explores the damage which can be done by our simple desire to look at other people.
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