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![]() His confidences crack something open in the narrator, who realises he has lost something, “an idea of myself … which shouldn’t have been so precious to me but was.”Īlthough everything is above board, there seems to be something transgressive about this meeting between teacher (“gospodine” or sir, they address him) and student, which is fitting in this book about power and the illicit thrill of crossing lines. The student is having troubles with love: the best friend he has a crush on is more interested in their mutual female friend. Garth Greenwell’s deceptively slight Cleanness begins with an unnamed narrator – an American teacher and writer working in Sofia, Bulgaria – meeting one of his students at a bar in the city. ![]()
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