![]() ![]() Although the narrator knows that his relationship with Mitko is purely transactional, he cannot help feeling a great deal of affection for the hustler. Despite the fact that Mitko seems to the narrator to be extraordinarily clean already, the hustler insists on washing his penis before allowing the narrator to come into contact with it. ![]() The narrator describes Mitko as tight-bodied and athletic with an obsessive need for cleanliness. Although the narrator is reluctant at first, he eventually agrees to pay Mitko to allow him to give the hustler oral sex. The reader first meets the narrator in the public restroom of Sofia's National Palace of Culture where Mitko, a 23-year-old hustler, offers to have sex with him for money. In Part I, "Mitko," the unnamed narrator is a young American gay man teaching in Sofia, Bulgaria. ![]() ![]() According to Publishers Weekly, What Belongs to You is "a great tragedy" and "the first great novel of 2016." The book is divided into three parts. American author and poet Garth Greenwell’s novel What Belongs to You (2016) tells the story of a young American gay man teaching in Sofia, Bulgaria. ![]()
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