Apartment in Athens

<p>Like Wescott's extraordinary novella <i>The Pilgrim Hawk</i> (which Susan Sontag described in <i>The New Yorker</i> as belonging among the treasures of 20th-century American literature) <i>Apartment in Athens</i> concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection resistance and compulsion--an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.</p>