Apartment in Athens

**A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years**

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.