{"product_id":"9780141961385","title":"9780141961385","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful and compelling novel, Elif Shafak's \u003ci\u003eThe Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e considers the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I didn't say anything. I didn't return his smiles. I looked at him in the wide mirror in front of where I was sitting. He grew uncomfortable and avoided my eyes. I hate those who think fat people are stupid.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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. But while the woman wants to hide away from the world, the man meets the stares from passers-by head on, compiling his 'Dictionary of Gazes' to explore the boundaries between appearance and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntertwined with the story of a bizarre freak-show organised in Istanbul in the 1880s, \u003ci\u003eThe Gaze \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the damage which can be inflicted by our simple desire to look at others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully evoked\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Original and Compelling\" - \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes\" - Helen Oyeyemi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Entertaining and affecting\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers' Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElif Shafak is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bastard of Istanbul\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Forty Rules of Love\u003c\/i\u003e and is the most widely read female novelist in Turkey.  Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a contributor for \u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and her TED talk on the politics of fiction has received 500 000 viewers since July 2010. She is married with two children and divides her time between Istanbul and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108782424304,"sku":"9780141961385","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141961385_p0.jpg?v=1769913306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141961385","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}