Ebook {Epub PDF} A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli

The hardcover publication of A Meal in Winter established Hubert Mingarelli as one of the most exciting new voices in international fiction. Mingarelli’s timeless novel begins one morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, with three German soldiers heading out Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.  · A Meal in Winter by French author Hubert Mingarelli is a subtle book that quietly but methodically stalks the reader’s sympathies. It does so through a beautiful, spare prose style that begins with the first line: “They had rung the iron gong outside, and it was still echoing, at first for real in the courtyard, and then, for a longer time, inside our heads.”. A sleeper hit in the United Kingdom, this is the first novel by the award-winning French novelist Hubert Mingarelli to be translated into English. A MEAL IN WINTER THEY HAD RUNG the iron gong outside and it was still echoing, at first for real in the courtyard, and then, for a longer time, inside our bltadwin.ru would not hear it again.

This is a small book that packs a big punch. One of the most impactful books I have read this year is A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli. This book follows a single meal between three German soliders, a Polish man and a Jew during the harsh Polish winter set against the backdrop of World War II. I had no idea a page book could emtionally impact me as much as this one. About Hubert Mingarelli. Hubert was a French author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. His book Quatre soldats (Four Soldiers) won the Prix Médicis in A Meal in Winter was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Hubert sadly passed away in early This tale of the Holocaust "will make many think of the stories of Ernest Hemingway a reminder of the power a short, perfect work of fiction can wield" (The Wall Street Journal).This timeless short novel begins one morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, with three German soldiers heading out into the frozen Polish countryside.

A MEAL IN WINTER by Hubert Mingarelli This small book set me on a journey of discovery. I’d not heard of the author until I listened to the book being discussed on Radio 4’s A Good Read. The hardcover publication of A Meal in Winter established Hubert Mingarelli as one of the most exciting new voices in international fiction. Mingarelli’s timeless novel begins one morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, with three German soldiers heading out into the frozen Polish countryside. Hubert Mingarelli’s A Meal in Winter is heralded as ‘a miniature masterpiece’ in its blurb, and tells ‘the story of three soldiers who capture a Jewish prisoner and face a chilling choice.’ It was first published in France in , and has been translated from its original French by Sam Taylor, recent translator of Laurent Binet’s excellent novel HHhH.