Garth Greenwell lives in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he teaches at the American College of Sofia. MITKO is his first book.
Garth Greenwell's MITKO is a work of enormous verbal energy in the
service of a vision punishing and remorseless. An anatomy of desire
and disappointment in a life 'pitched almost always beneath the
pitch of poetry' yet captured in language alert to every prospect
of beauty, however compromised and fleeting. --Robert Boyers,
author of The Dictator's Dictation
In this lyrical and sophisticated exploration of tormented desire
and romantic obsession, Garth Greenwell unfurls a story of love and
life in a faraway place that is finely observed and deeply felt.
His voice is elegant and original; his prose graceful, seductive
and full of yearning. --David Francis, author of Stray Dog
Winter
In MITKO Garth Greenwell displays a dazzling ability to negotiate
the shadowy boundary between lust and longing. The story is
thoroughly modern, but the elegance of his style, his devotion to
his characters, and his Jamesian skill in parsing emotions give
this narration a timeless quality. A splendid debut. --Margot
Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
MITKO is a haunting and compelling meditation on erotic obsession,
loneliness, and power. Garth Greenwell writes with the intensity
and urgency of a poet, and his novella takes on the weight and
impact of a much longer work of fiction. --Stephen McCauley, author
of The Object of My Affection
MITKO is a novella of astonishing force and poignance, and
Greenwell's Sofia brings to mind Christopher Isherwood's Berlin or
the Saigon of Marguerite Duras. --Honor Moore, author of The
Bishop's Daughter
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