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The-Gaze-by-Elif-Shafak:-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-wining-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-make-up,-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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