Ulli Is A Young Woman Squatting In A Dismal, Empty Berlin Apartment, One Year After The War Has Ended. She's Scraping Together A Living As An Interpreter Between American Gis And The Wide-eyed Local Girls Eager To Meet Them. One Night, Ulli Meets Two Soldiers Who Will Change Her Life: Leo, Handsome And Ambitious And Desperate To Escape His Small-town Upbringing; And Intellectual, Asthmatic Isaac, Whose Refugee Parents Had Fled Russia For New York. Winter Kept Us Warm Follows Ulli, Leo, And Isaac Through The Next Six Decades Of Their Lives--from Berlin To Postwar Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, And Contemporary Morocco. A Marriage. Two Children. And Yet Only One Parent. At The Core Of This Novel Is The Mystery Of How This Came To Be: A Twisting Narrative That Explores The Dark Corners And Lantern Slides Of These Characters' Lives, Revealing In Pieces And Fragments What Became Of Their Long-ago Love Triangle Set Against The Brutality Of Postwar Living. Winter Kept Us Warm Is An Evocative Story Of Family, Strained By The Cruelty Of War And Its Generational Repercussions. A Novel Of The Heart, Filled To The Brim With Unforgettable Characters Stitching Together The Deep Threads Of Love, Friendship, Loyalty, And, Of Course, Loss. Anne Raeff.

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Anne Raeff

Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services), Berkeley, CA, 2018

United States, United States of America

Berkeley, CA, 2017

California, 2018

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A bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war life
Ulli is a young woman, half-English and half-German, squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. Shes scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night, Ulli meets two American soldiers: Leo, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small town upbringing; and intellectual, asthmatic Isaac, whose refugee parents had fled Russia and then Paris for New York.
Winter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their livesfrom Berlin to post-war Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, and Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet, only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be; not a chronological narrative, we explore the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters' lives, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long ago love triangle set against the brutality of post-war living.
Winter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love, friendship, loyalty, and, of course, loss.

'Every word here feels set down with care and fierce conscience. The resulting narrative glows.'—San Francisco Chronicle A novel of rich details and landscapes, Winter Kept Us Warm follows three friends through six decades — from postwar Berlin to Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles to contemporary Morocco. A twisting narrative reveals their mysteries in fragments, examining their long–ago love triangle and how it changed their lives forever.'This novel is a profound success that manages to take its place in the canon of excellent war literature while also maintaining a kind of magical surreality... This is an astonishing read, a best–of, and a masterful treatise on enduring.'—Lambda Literary

2018-07-15