One morning in the dead of winter, during the darkest years of World War II, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders with tracking down and bringing back for execution one of them” a Jew. Having flushed out a young man hiding in the woods, they decide to rest in an abandoned house before continuing their journey back to the camp. As they prepare food, they are joined by a passing Pole whose virulent anti-Semitism adds tension to an already charged atmosphere. Before long, the group’s sympathies begin to splinter when each man is forced to confront his own conscience as the moral implications of their murderous mission become clear.
Called masterly and necessary” by the Times Literary Supplement, A Meal in Winter recalls the claustrophobia of Roman Polanski’s The Pianist and Louis Begley’s Wartime Lies. 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.
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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 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)
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