Cleanness

Resumen del libro

Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song.

In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave the place he's come to call home, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each bearing uncanny reminders of his past.

A queer student's confession recalls his own first love, a stranger's seduction devolves into paternal sadism, and a romance with another foreigner opens, and heals, old wounds. Each echo reveals startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit, and with our own fugitive selves.

Cleanness revisits and expands the world of Garth Greenwell's beloved debut, What Belongs to You, declared "an instant classic" by The New York Times Book Review. In exacting, elegant prose, he transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers.

Biografía del autor

P B Garth Greenwell /B (Louisville, 1978) ganó el Miami University Press Novel Prize en 2010 y quedó finalista del premio Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction con I Mitko /I , un relato breve que se convirtió en la primera parte de I Lo que te pertenece /I . Este debut novelístico, traducido a una docena de lenguas, ganó el British Book Award y fue nominado para el National Book Award, así como finalista de otros seis premios, entre los cuales se encuentran el PEN/Faulkner Award y el Los Angeles Times Book Prize. I Lo que te pertenece /I fue también seleccionada como una de las mejores novelas del 2016 por I The New Yorker /I , I The New York Times /I , I The Washington Post /I , I The Guardian /I , I The Paris Review /I , I Esquire /I y I Vulture /I , entre otros medios. Graduado en Harvard y en el Iowa Writers' Workshop, los relatos de Greenwell han sido publicados en I The New Yorker /I , I The Paris Review /I , I A Public Space /I y I VICE /I , y colabora como crítico en I The New Yorker /I , I The London Review of Books /I y I The New York Times Book Review /I , entre otros. Actualmente reside en Iowa City.<br>