Apartment in Athens
Glenway Wescott
New York Review of Books
<i>Apartment in Athens</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who are forced to share their quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages a drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion.<span>&nbsp;</span></span><i>Apartment in Athens</i><span><span>&nbsp;</span>depicts a great and terrible war through the lens of everyday existence. It is a tale of spiritual struggle in which triumph and defeat are next to impossible to tell apart.</span>