Book, That belongs to you, O[LS]

Hailed as the great gay romance of our time, this book is a delicate and intelligent investigation of love and memory. On an unusually warm autumn day, an American professor enters a public bathroom beneath the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young man who charges for sex. In the following months, the relationship between the two deepens and becomes increasingly intimate and intense. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with his mounting anguish, he is forced to grapple with his own history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up gay in 1990s America. Surprisingly erotic and immensely powerful, What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about how past and culture, scars and shame can shape who we are and determine the way we love.