Winter Kept Us Warm A Novel

A bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war life from the author of The Jungle Around Us, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award. 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 interppreter 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.