GREENWELL GARTH

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Μια φθινοπωρινή μέρα ένας Αμερικανός καθηγητής μπαίνει στις δημόσιες τουαλέτες του Εθνικού Μεγάρου Πολιτισμού στη Σόφια. Εκεί γνωρίζει τον Μίτκο, έναν γοητευτικό νεαρό που εκδίδεται επί χρήμασι, και πληρώνει κι αυτός το αντίτιμο για να κάνει σεξ μαζί του. Τους επόμενους δυο μήνες επιστρέφει ξανά και ξανά στον Μίτκο, σπρωγμένος από λαγνεία, μοναξιά κι από τη σαγήνη του κινδύνου. Δεν αργεί έτσι να εμπλακεί σε μια σχέση αλληλεξάρτησης, στην οποία η τρυφερότητα μπορεί εύκολα να δώσει τη θέση της στη βία. Παλεύοντας να συμφιλιώσει το ερωτικό το...
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(P/B) CLEANNESS
Bulgaria's capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song. Amid this disquiet, a young American teacher prepares to leave the place he's come to call home. In a reflective mood, heightened by his imminent departure, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each revealing startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit and with ourse...
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(P/B) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
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...
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(H/B) WHAT BELONGS TO YOU
On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homeland, Bulgaria, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You is a stunning...
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