Kristina Kirilova

The Other Gaze (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One morning, the world's desires flip. Every sexual orientation has inverted - the straight are now drawn to their own sex; the gay find themselves reaching in the opposite direction.

The people you were drawn to yesterday no longer pull at you. The ones you overlooked suddenly blaze with possibility. Families fracture, relationships mutate, and governments scramble to regulate the chaos as if longing itself has become a biological hazard.

Across continents, ordinary lives tilt on their axes: In New York, scientists race to decode the phenomenon before panic hardens into policy. In Tokyo and Madrid, friendships, crushes, and marriages teeter as people try to understand who they are now meant to be. In Thessaloniki, a restless university student finds herself torn between fear and reinvention as the city rearranges itself around new truths.

And through it all moves the possibility of connection - fragile, dangerous, and newly recalibrated.

The Other Gaze weaves together humor, philosophy, global politics, and the intimate confessions of people trying to make sense of a world where desire no longer obeys old rules. From cafés to laboratories, dance floors to family kitchens, the novel traces the tiny rebellions and unexpected freedoms that emerge when the heart refuses to behave.

A sharp, moving, and unexpectedly hopeful literary novel for readers who love character-driven stories with big ideas at their core - a story about adaptation, longing, and the quiet courage of wanting more, even when the world feels newly impossible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kristina Kirilova
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232905378
• Artikelnr.: 76005547

Autorenporträt

Kristina Kirilova is the author of The Other Gaze.

The idea for the novel was born on a beach, somewhere between sunscreen, sea breeze, and a wildly unserious conversation about what would happen if everyone's sexual orientation suddenly flipped. As a bisexual woman, Kristina liked to tease her friends that she'd be "untouchable in the apocalypse," immune to the chaos. When she complained that the book she wanted to read didn't exist, a friend shot back: "So write it."

She assumed it would be a short, cheeky project she could squeeze in around her nine-to-five life as an architect a little satire, a little chaos, nothing too dramatic. Instead, the story grew teeth and heart. Characters arrived with their own desires and confessions, dragging her into a far deeper, funnier, and more honest novel than she expected.

The Other Gaze became, in the end, a many-voiced confession dressed as a social experiment and the most unexpectedly personal thing she's ever written.