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."
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Wall Street Journal "Stark and profound."
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New York Times "Fine reading, not just for those interested in the war."
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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."
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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."
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The Huffington Post "It is 138 profound pages of horror and humanity."
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Book of the Year, the Irish Times "Short, powerful, vivid, and utterly compelling."
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The Jewish Chronicle "Brilliant, devastating, [and] compelling."
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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."
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Publishers Weekly (starred) "The 'banality of evil' finds beautiful, spare expression in this remarkable novella."
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Ian McEwan "A luminous tale. . . . The most moving book I have read for a long time."
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The Independent on Sunday "A masterpiece."
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The Independent "This strong and simple story packs a mighty punch."
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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."
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The Herald (Glasgow)
