Audiobooks by Garth Greenwell

"Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 'My book of the year . . . Rarely has illness made for such a compelling read' - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 'Marvelous: exceptionally vivid, real, and true' - Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island 'Fundamentally about the beauty of life' - Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam 'Exquisite. Utterly mesmerizing' - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 'A fierce, beautiful novel' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater 'Beautiful, evocative' - The Times A medical crisis brings one man close to death - and to love, art, and beauty - in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell. A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind. This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value - art, memory, poetry, music, care - are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, this is a love story of the most unexpected kind. 'A classic, a dawn serenade, a little miracle of exigent joy. I'll be rereading it the rest of my life' - Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!"

Garth Greenwell (Author), Garth Greenwell (Narrator)

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[Spanish] - Pureza

"Candidato a los premios Sade 2021, Joyce Carol Oates y Gordon Burn. Seleccionado como uno de los mejores libros del 2020 por elNew York Times e incluido en la lista de los diez mejores libros del año por los críticos del New York Times. Mejor libro del año según más de treinta publicaciones, incluidas The New Yorker, TIME, The Was hington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR y la BBC. Garth Greenwell regresa al protagonista y al entorno de su célebre debut, Lo que te pertenece, para seguir explorando cómo nos definen el sexo, el erotismo y el deseo. En la ciudad de Sofía se respiran los agitados aires de una democracia apenas estrenada. Por sus calles desfilan jóvenes estudiantes con canciones y proclamas a la conquista de nuevas libertades, mientras los viejos edificios socialistas se deterioran lentamente. En medio de esta atmósfera efervescente, Garth Greenwell da voz a un profesor estadounidense que ha logrado hacer de Bulgaria su hogar. Al principio de la novela nuestro protagonista acaba de separarse de R., el único hombre al que ha amado con un sentimiento de pureza que ni siquiera creía posible. En esta nueva etapa de su vida, una serie de encuentros con estudiantes, otros escritores como él o amantes esporádicos ponen de manifiesto nuevas formas de intimidad, poder y deseo que le enfrentarán a sus cicatrices. La aclamada segunda novela de Greenwell podría leerse como un libro de relatos o como una delicada sinfonía en tres movimientos. Con su habitual prosa sensual y detallada, Greenwell consigue plasmar sobre el papel los extraños dialectos del erotismo y el deseo en un texto de una fuerza extraordinaria, afianzando su posición como uno de los escritores que mejor indagan en los complejos resortes de la naturaleza humana. La crítica ha dicho... «Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, E, M. Forster, Yukio Mishima, Christoper Isherwood, James Baldwin... Nombres y genios a los que se une Garth Greenwell a la hora de diseccionar -con la más quirúrgica de las pasiones y prosa tan precisa como encendida- al amor por otro hombre siempre comprendido, pero nunca contenido, como a esa obsesión de la que se conoce la puerta de entrada pero jamás se ubica del todo la salida de emergencia.» Rodrigo Fresán «Pureza es un libro impresionante: conmovedor, radical, a la vez bello y violento, inesperado. Garth Greenwell es un autor fundamental, y su escritura nos proporciona herramientas para reafirmarnos, para existir: para luchar.» Édouard Louis «Incandescente… el modo de escribir sobre sexo de Greenwelll es abrasador. Coja sus novelas con guantes de amianto y déjelas sobre salvamanteles para proteger su mesa de posibles daños por causados por el calor. Greenwell tiene un don extraordinario, un don que no abunda.» The New York Times Book Review, Dwight Garner «Greenwell hurga en lo impreciso de los sentimientos, en la ambigüedad moral, en esa búsqueda de la verdad emocional a través de la verdad del lenguaje, de la precisión, de la inquisición a veces. Por eso produce esa sensación hipnótica y casi obscena de estar mirando no a través de la cerradura, sino del mismo pensamiento de los personajes.» Zenda Libros, Luisgé Martín"

Garth Greenwell (Author), Mario De Candia (Narrator)

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Kink

"'This anthology of literary fiction features an all-star ensemble' Cosmopolitan Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and featuring a roster of all-star contributors including Alexander Chee, Roxane Gay, Carmen Maria Machado, and more. Kink is a dynamic anthology of literary fiction that opens an imaginative door into the world of desire. The stories within this collection portray love, desire, BDSM, and sexual kinks in all their glory with a bold new vision. The collection includes works by renowned fiction writers such as Callum Angus, Alexander Chee, Vanessa Clark, Melissa Febos, Kim Fu, Roxane Gay, Cara Hoffman, Zeyn Joukhadar, Chris Kraus, Carmen Maria Machado, Peter Mountford, Larissa Pham, and Brandon Taylor, with Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon as editors. The stories within explore bondage, power-play, and submissive-dominant relationships; we are taken to private estates, therapists' offices, underground sex clubs, private estates, and even a Victorian-era sex theater. While there are whips and chains, sure, the true power of these stories lies in their beautiful, moving dispatches from across the sexual spectrum of interest and desires, as portrayed by some of today's most exciting writers."

Garth Greenwell, R.O. Kwon (Author), Aden Hakimi, Ashton Grooms, Aven Shore, Corey Brill, Joy Osmanski, Kaipo Schwab, Kyler O'neal, Lameece Issaq (Narrator)

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Cleanness

"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, Greenwell transcribes the strange dialects of desire, cementing his stature as one of our most vital living writers. ‘This is an exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very best contemporary novelists.’ – Independent 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 a younger man 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. Chosen as a book of the year in the New Yorker, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Irish Times."

Garth Greenwell (Author), Garth Greenwell (Narrator)

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What Belongs to You

"Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. Winner of the Debut of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize. 'A searching and compassionate meditation on the slipperiness of desire . . . as beautiful and vivid as poetry' – Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, their relationship growing increasingly intimate and unnerving. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he's forced to grapple with his own fraught history: his formative experiences of love, his painful rejection by family and friends, and the difficulty of growing up as a gay man in southern America in the 1990s. 'Worthy of its comparisons to James Baldwin and Alan Hollinghurst as well as Virginia Woolf and W G Sebald . . . spellbinding' – Evening Standard Longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction. A Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction."

Garth Greenwell (Author), Garth Greenwell (Narrator)

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