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 follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives-from Berlin to postwar Manhattan, 1960s Los Angeles, and contemporary Morocco.
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. She's scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. Ulli is a young woman squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment, one year after the war has ended. "Richly depicting emotional interiority of its characters, Raeff's novel reveals how the devastating effects of war and hidden secrets can impact lives across decades." - Publishers Weekly Two acclaimed writers-Anne Raeff and Minrose Gwin-talk about their work in conversation.Ībout Winter Kept Us Warm and Anne Raeff:Ī bold &haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII & post-war life from the author of The Jungle Around Us, Flannery O'Connor Award winner.
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