In a reflective mood, heightened by his imminent departure, he grapples with the intimate encounters that have marked his years abroad, each revealing startling insights about what it means to seek connection: with those we love, with the places we inhabit and with ourselves.Ĭhosen as a book of the year in the New Yorker, Daily Telegraph, Observer, New York Times, BBC, TIME and Irish Times. Soviet buildings crumble, unrelenting winds lash the city, political protesters flood the streets with song.Īmid this disquiet, a young American teacher prepares to leave the place he’s come to call home. ‘This is an exceptional work of fiction, which places Greenwell among the very best contemporary novelists’ – The iīulgaria’s capital, Sofia, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Cleanness is Greenwell’s second novel or ‘lieder cycle’, as he’s called it after What Belongs to You, his celebrated debut from 2016. Written in precise, elegant prose, Garth Greenwell's Cleanness is an almost unbearably poignant book about a man whose life, like so many, has been transformed by the discovery and loss of love. Windpipes are taut, anuses are silky, flesh is relentlessly sniffed, and pages are heavy with sweat.
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