Longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021 br Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize br Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 br A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year br Named a Best Book of the Year by over 30 Publications, including The New Yorker , TIME , The Washington Post , Entertainment Weekly , NPR, and the BBC In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You , Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters s ..

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 - A Finalist for the James Taite Black Prize for Fiction - A Finalist the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - A Finalist for the Green Carnation Prize - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - A Los Angeles Times Bestseller br br Named One of the Best Books of the Year by More Than Fifty Publications, Including: The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times (selected by Dwight Garner), GQ, The Washington Post, Esquire, NPR, Slate, Vulture , the San Francisco Chroni ..

Longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021 br Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize br Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 br A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year br Named a Best Book of the Year by over 30 Publications, including The New Yorker , TIME , The Washington Post , Entertainment Weekly , NPR, and the BBC In the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You , Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters s ..

Fiction. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American newly arrived in a foreign city pays a young man for sex. Over the next months, as what at first seems an uncomplicated transaction deepens into something more intricate and unnerving, his discovery of the geography and griefs of an unfamiliar country is accompanied by the unfolding of Mitko's own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. The story of a desire that grows increasingly ambivalent, poised between submission, need, and resentment, MITKO is a powerful meditation on the chances of history and privilege, on mutual predation, and on our inability to know with any certainty ..