What Belongs to You

<p><b>Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's <i>What Belongs to You</i> 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. <br><br>Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards</b><b>.</b><br><b>Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize.<br><br>'A searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire . . . as beautiful and vivid as poetry' – Hanya Yanagihara, author of <i>A Little Life</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>As 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.<br><br><b>'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald . . . spellbinding' – </b><i><b>Evening Standard</b></i><br><br><b>Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction.<br>A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.<br>A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.</b></p>