Introduction of The Gaze By Elif Shafak The Gaze is a novel which is written by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and its publication occurred in Turkey in 1999 with Turkish title “Mahrem” and was translated into English in 2006 and won the prize of the best novel by Turkish Writers Association. While going through the pages of The Gaze by Elif Shafak, the generality of thoughts and perceptions paved it’s root to my mind, these perceptions were about, self-hood, love of a different kind, of hankering to be accepted and…