The Gaze
- Published: 20 October 2010
- ISBN: 9780141961385
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Beautifully evoked
The Times
Original and compelling
TLS
Plays with ideas of beauty and ugliness like they're Rubik's cubes
Helen Oyeyemi
Entertaining and affecting
Publishers’ Weekly
Elif Shafak is the best author to come out of Turkey in the last decade
Orhan Pamuk
A gorgeous novel: worldly, intriguing, raucous yet elegant, teeming with love and cruelty - and brilliantly alive
A.D. Miller
Shafak's novel is a carefully crafted work of imagination... [it] will confirm Shafak's reputation as a writer of impressive range, who is not afraid to ask the big questions
Financial Times
Shafak paints a gorgeous picture of a city teeming with secrets, intrigue and romance. Lush
The Times
Vividly evoked, beautifully written... this edifying novel shows how hate and envy destroy, and how love might build the world anew
Observer
Shafak blends historical fiction, urban politics and youthful curiosity in an elaborate map of Turkey whose key is the book itself
Guardian