{"product_id":"2940169694567","title":"Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eUlli is a young woman, half English and half German, squatting in a dismal, empty Berlin apartment one year after the war has ended. She's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter Kept Us Warm\u003c\/i\u003e follows Ulli, Leo, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives¿from Berlin to postwar 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, it 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter Kept Us Warm\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162225623280,"sku":"2940169694567","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169694567_p0.jpg?v=1769898856","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169694567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}