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How long does it take to read Mitko?

Garth Greenwell

Mitko by Garth Greenwell takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2011. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 21 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 23 minutes

The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"A haunting novel of erotic obsession by a major new talent On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a stairwell beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homeland, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain future. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign culture. Lyrical and intense, it tells the story of a man caught between longing and resentment, unable to separate desire from danger, and faced with the impossibility of understanding those he most longs to know"--

Subjects: Americans, Gay men, Fiction, Bulgaria, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Gay men, fiction

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