A Meal in Winter

A miniature masterpiece, this is the spare, stunning story of three soldiers who share a meal with their Jewish prisoner and face a chilling choice

About the author

HUBERT MINGARELLI is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. His book Quatre soldats ([Four Soldiers], Le Seuil, 2003) won the Prix Médicis. He lives in Grenoble. A Meal in Winter was shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.Sam Taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist. His translations include the award-winning French novel, HHhH by Laurent Binet. His novels have reached an international audience: The Republic of Trees (Faber, 2005) was translated into Italian, German, Korean and Hungarian and was turned into the film All Good Children (2010); The Island at the End of the World (2009) was translated into French and Turkish and a film is in development. He has written for many newspapers and magazine,s including The Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Vogue and Esquire, and also worked for 10 years as an editor and sub-editor at The Observer.

Summary

A miniature masterpiece, this is the spare, stunning story of three soldiers who share a meal with their Jewish prisoner and face a chilling choice

Product details

• Authors: Hubert Mingarelli, Hubert (Y) Mingarelli, Mingarelli Hubert
• Assisted by: Sam Taylor (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781846275364
• ISBN: 978-1-84627-536-4
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 112 g
• Series: Portobello Books
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary