Description

Like Wescottis remarkable novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag explained in The Brand New Yorker as belonging "one of the items of 20th century American literature"), Condo in Athens worries an unique triangular connection. In this tale about a Traditional couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who should share their living quarters with a German official, Wescott stages a powerful and disturbing episode of lodging and denial, opposition and compulsion—a consideration of governmental oppression and religious battle that's also a tale about the expense of closeted identification.