What Belongs to You

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. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. ''A searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire . . . as beautiful and vivid as poetry'' – Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life 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, their relationship growing increasingly intimate and unnerving. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he''s forced to grapple with his own fraught