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From the author of A Meal in Winter and Four Soldiers, a poignant story of war, trauma and its aftermath.

Dinslaken, Germany. July 1945. The war is over, and the allied forces are beginning to assess the damage. Among them, is a war photographer. As the rest of the press corp return home, he finds himself reluctant to leave and, in the company of the young and sensitive driver he has been assigned, he sets out to photograph ordinary German people in front of their homes. As the pair continue their journey, it becomes clear that the young driver ha...

Hubert Mingarelli is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. Four Soldiers won the Prix Médicis. His novel A Meal in Winter was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He lives in Grenoble.Sam Taylor is a translator, novelist and journalist. His translated works include Laurent Binet's award-winning novel HHhH and Leila Slimani's Lullaby. His own novels have been translated in 10 lang...

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1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting fo...

Media track record: A Meal in Winter was strongly reviewed in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and was an Indies Introduce selection by the ABA. Opportunities: The book will publish on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Russian civil war Blurbs/endorsements: Ian McEwan and Simon Sebag Montefiore endorsed A Meal in Winter.

A spare, stunning story of three soldiers who share a meal with their Jewish prisoner and face a chilling choice. Now in paperback. 'Beautiful and disturbing... complex and surprising' Mark Smith, "Herald

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. They have been charged by their commanders with tracking down and bringing ...