Talking Location With … author Tom Benjamin: BOLOGNA and environs
Apartment in Athens
Location(s): Athens
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): Mid 20th Century onwards
This is the story of 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.
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