Apartment in Athens - Glenway Wescott

Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described
in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"),
Apartment in Athens 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.