![]() It has yet to achieve the momentum of gay rebellion that creates a mainstream gay culture-even today the majority of gay people simply stay in the closet. It’s a country that’s moved past the cultural stagnation of communism but still suffers from open homophobia and refuses even to acknowledge hate crimes.Ī communist country from 1946 until 1990, Bulgaria was relatively bereft of the tools that challenge the dominant heterostructure and propel discourse-film, literature, and art. In his debut novel, What Belongs to You, Greenwell expands Mitko into a 190-page meditation on sex, desire, identity, rejection, humiliation, and what it’s like to navigate these complex subjects in Bulgaria during the early 2010s. ![]() The book, a mix of fiction and memoir, is an account of the sexual and romantic relationship between two men: the eponymous Bulgarian male hustler, and the narrator, ostensibly based on the author, who works as a teacher at the American College in Sofia, where Greenwell taught for four years. Garth Greenwell, an American poet, critic, and fiction writer, first came to prominence in 2011 with his novella Mitko.
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