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Key ideas from the book
- The novel considers how body image and desirability shape the experience of being seen.
- A couple respond differently to the attention their appearances attract.
- Their role reversal offers a way to explore reactions to public scrutiny.
- The “Dictionary of the Gaze” reflects on the effects a look can have.
- An 1880s Istanbul freak show is woven into the contemporary narrative.
About The Gaze by Elif Shafak
In The Gaze, Elif Shafak examines body image, desirability and the effects of being looked at. An overweight woman and her dwarf lover, tired of attracting stares, switch their appearance in an attempt to change how they meet the gaze of others. Their responses differ: she seeks to withdraw, while he confronts the attention and records its effects in a “Dictionary of the Gaze.”
This contemporary novel intertwines their story with that of a freak show in Istanbul in the 1880s. Readers interested in Turkish literature, literary fiction and questions of how looking shapes the experience of being seen will find those strands at the heart of the book.
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