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,...

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 the natures of others or our own fugitive selves.

Author: Garth Greenwell
Publisher: Miami University Press
Published: 06/01/2011
Pages: 86
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781450762144


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist

About the Author
Greenwell, Garth: - Garth Greenwell lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he teaches at the American College of Sofia. MITKO is his first book.