'A rich, important debut, an instant classic to be savored by all lovers of serious fiction because of, not despite, its subject: a gay man's endeavor to fathom his own heart' - The New York Times Book Review What Belongs to You is an uncommonly sensitive, intelligent and poignant novel' - Sunday Times Greenwell writes in long, consummately nuanced sentences, strung with insights and soaked in melancholy. 'A refreshingly slim, subdued and contemplative piece of work. I found myself trembling as I read it' - Evening Standard a novel of rejection and disgust, displacement and transcendence. 'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781447280521 Number of pages: 208 Weight: 152 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 14 mm MEDIA REVIEWS
Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, 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. 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. 'What Belongs to You stands naturally alongside the great works of compromised sexual obsession such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. an essential work of our time' - Daily Telegraph Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize 2017 Winner of the British Book Awards Debut of the Year 2017
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