What belongs to you

Author

Garth Greenwell

Call Number

• FICTION GREE (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2016]

Physical Description

194 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homeland, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain future. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign culture. Lyrical and intense, it tells the story of a man caught between longing and resentment, unable to separate desire from danger, and faced with the impossibility of understanding those he most longs to know"--

Notes

"Part I of What Belongs to You was originally published, in a very different form, as a novella, Mitko, in June 2011 by the Miami University Press"--Title page verso.