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What Belongs to You

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Intimate exploration of desire and estrangement.

"What Belongs to You" is a book that dares to delve into the depths of an illicit affair, providing not just a titillating narrative, but also a poignant look into the complexities of intimacy against the backdrop of a post-communist Bulgaria. If you're looking for a story that weaves sensuality with emotional and cultural discovery, this book's raw and reflective prose will likely linger with you long after the final page.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • British Book Award for Début Book of the Year (2017)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2017)
  • Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Nominee (2012)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2016)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author (2016)
  • Miami University Press Novella Prize (2010)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

What Belongs to You

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ISBN: 9780374288228
Authors: Garth Greenwell
Date of Publication: 2016-01-19
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: LGBTQ+
Goodreads rating: 3.77
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Description

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and disease. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.
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Intimate exploration of desire and estrangement.

"What Belongs to You" is a book that dares to delve into the depths of an illicit affair, providing not just a titillating narrative, but also a poignant look into the complexities of intimacy against the backdrop of a post-communist Bulgaria. If you're looking for a story that weaves sensuality with emotional and cultural discovery, this book's raw and reflective prose will likely linger with you long after the final page.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • British Book Award for Début Book of the Year (2017)
  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2017)
  • Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Nominee (2012)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2016)
  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2016)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author (2016)
  • Miami University Press Novella Prize (2010)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2016)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award Nominee for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.