“Full of insight and an arresting resistance to moral certainty. What Belongs to You stands naturally alongside the great works of compromised sexual obsession such as Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice Nabokov’s Lolita.What Belongs to You is an essential work of our time.”― Daily Telegraph (London)

“A tale of sexual obsession set to be a classic.An astonishing debut novel. He underscores the way expressions of love are nearly always, in part, performance.'―Dwight Garner, The New York Times He seems to have an inborn ability to cast a spell.A subtle observer of human interactions. 'In Garth Greenwell's incandescent first novel, What Belongs to You, an old tale is made new and made punishing.There's suppleness and mastery in his voice. Greenwell’s insight is that the destruction of innocence is a process that never halts.”―Christian Lorentzen, New York magazine “’s hard to tell at times whether the narrator is the innocent abroad or an American abroad among innocents. He kinda writes like Virginia Woolf, actually.'― GQ (Best Books of the Year)

Greenwell’s voice is measured, built on careful observations and quiet gestures. ' What Belongs to You is the most stirring, understated book I read this year. “ What Belongs to You whispers like an incantation of desire.In Greenwell’s poetic sentences, emotional fearlessness is mated with extraordinary sensitivity to the tremors of regret.”―Ron Charles, The Washington Post 'The best first novel I've read in a generation.'―Andrew Solomon, The Guardian (Best Books of the Year) But it gains a different power from its uneasy atmosphere of psychic instability, of confession and penitence, of difficult forces acknowledged but barely mastered and beyond the conscious control of even this gifted novelist.'―James Wood, The New Yorker 'In an age of the sentence fetish, Greenwell thinks and writes, as Woolf or Sebald do, in larger units of comprehension.Brilliantly self-aware.Greenwell's novel impresses for many reasons, not least of which is how perfectly it fulfills its intentions. 'A rich, important debut, an instant classic to be savored by all lovers of serious fiction because of, not despite, its subject: a gay man's endeavor to fathom his own heart.'―Aaron Hamburger, The New York Times Book Review

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