A Meal in Winter: A Novel of World War II - Hardcover

Hubert Mingarelli’s books include Quatre soldats (Four Soldiers), which won the Prix de Médicis. He lives in Grenoble. Sam Taylor is a translator, novelist, and journalist. His translated works include Laurent Binet’s award-winning HHhH. His own novels have been translated into ten languages.

Praise for A Meal in Winter:
The book’s deceptive directness and simplicity, and its muted undercurrents of horror, will make many think of the stories of Ernest Hemingway. This is a painful, unconsoling reading, but also a reminder of the power a short, perfect work of fiction can wield.”
Wall Street Journal

Stark and profound.”
New York Times

Fine reading, not just for those interested in the war.”
Library Journal

The command of tone and voice sustains tension until the very last page of a novel that will long resonate in the reader’s conscience.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Masterful. . . . Mingarelli offers a new twist on the Holocaust novel. His spare prose, crisply translated by Sam Taylor, adds to the narrative’s intensity and keeps you turning the pages until its poignant conclusion.”
The Huffington Post

It is 138 profound pages of horror and humanity.”
Book of the Year, the Irish Times

Short, powerful, vivid, and utterly compelling.”
The Jewish Chronicle

Brilliant, devastating, [and] compelling.”
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs

Haunting. . . . With devastating concision, Mingarelli and his translator, Sam Taylor, carry the moral dilemma to an understated yet stunning conclusion.”
Publishers Weekly (starred)

The banality of evil’ finds beautiful, spare expression in this remarkable novella.”
Ian McEwan

A luminous tale. . . . The most moving book I have read for a long time.”
The Independent on Sunday

A masterpiece.”
The Independent

This strong and simple story packs a mighty punch.”
The Times (London)

Beautiful and disturbing, complex and surprising. . . . This is not easy for the reader to handle, but Mingarelli knows what he is doing.”
The Herald (Glasgow)