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Apartment in Athens 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. Apartment in Athens 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.
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Apartment in Athens, Glenway Wescott
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- Released
- 2004
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- Title
- Apartment in Athens
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Glenway Wescott
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1590170814
- ISBN13
- 9781590170816
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Wars, World War II, American Literature, 20th century, Greece
- Original title
- Apartment in Athens
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Apartment in Athens 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. Apartment in Athens 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.