"A brothel worker who survives by controlling desire is shaken when a punk offers her a sexless marriage of convenience, only to vanish before the choice can harden into escape."
The Splintered VowThe winter of 1983 bit harder than usual in Kaiserslautern. January winds swept down from the Pfalz forest, rattling the windows of the brothel and carrying rumors of fresh protests in Bonn against NATO’s planned deployment of Pershing...
"Ayla Yılmaz another room in the anthology of forgotten dreams."
The brothel’s downstairs bar was thick with smoke and the smell of spilled beer on a Friday night in late autumn 1982. Outside, the rain drummed on the parked Opel Asconas and American Ford Pintos belonging to the evening’s clientele....
"In Cold War shadows near Ramstein Air Base, a defected East German sex worker finds fleeting echoes of lost love in the arms of a homesick American soldier."
The brothel sat on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern, a squat two-story building with faded yellow stucco that blended into the misty Rhineland-Palatinate landscape. It was 1982, and the Cold War hung like a perpetual fog over everything—the American jets roaring...