What Belongs to You
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Garth Greenwell
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Garth Greenwell
About this listen
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 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.
'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald . . . spellbinding' – Evening Standard
Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction.
A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction.
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-05-2022
Well written but performance was a bit much
Normally I love it when the author narrates the audiobook. I find it often gives a great insight into the way the book was supposed to be read. Greenwell however seems to be too close to the novel, every sentence is too grand and verging on pompous. It's as if he is saying, "oh listen to this one, this one is a REALLY good one". There is no variation in the cadence and the predictable wistfulness of the narration gets boring very quick. It's like 6 hours of a Keats poem.
I think this is a real shame because it is a very well written book - the language is beautiful, the characters are well developed, the plot is fine. Overall, I liked the themes and it had relatable aspects, but I just couldn't get over the pretentious narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-09-2024
A beautiful story of enigmatic desire
It's great to hear this read by the author. An assured character study filled with elegance and insight.
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