![]() ![]() 'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald. ![]() He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly intimate and unnerving.Īs he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. ![]() There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. as beautiful and vivid as poetry' – Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life 'A searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. ![]()
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