by Glenway Wescott · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483463147
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«Apartamento en Atenas» is the historical fiction novel by Glenway Wescott, published by Debolsillo in hardcover (304 pages, in Spanish).
In occupied Athens during World War II, the Helianos couple and their two children see their home invaded by Captain Kalter, a Nazi officer who subjects them to humiliations and psychological torture. Wescott thus traces the degradation of a family trapped between daily humiliation and small gestures of dignity.
Debolsillo's Contemporary Collection. Translation by Toni Hill Gumbao. Original title: Apartment in Athens (1945).
For readers of historical fiction and war narrative focused on occupation, war and resistance.
Glenway Wescott was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.
