Ebook {Epub PDF} Four Soldiers: A Novel by Hubert Mingarelli

 · Book Title: Four Soldiers. ISBN Author: Hubert Mingarelli Translated by Sam Taylor. Publisher: Portobello Books. Guideline Price: £Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins. Hubert Mingarelli is the author of numerous novels, short story collections and fiction for young adults. Four Soldiers won the Prix Medicis. 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/5(37).  · Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli (translated by Sam Taylor) is a short novel about members of the Russian Army fighting the Russian Civil War in Mr. Mingarelli is a French writer, he won the Prix Medici prize in for this novel. pages.

Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli review: Solace in wartime There are five not four soldiers in this novel, which is more novella than novel. The fifth soldier is Kouzma Evdokim, a young. A novel of war, revolution, youth, and friendship by the "remarkable" (Ian McEwan) French author of A Meal in Winter. Hubert Mingarelli's simple, powerful, and moving stories of men in combat have established him as one of the most exciting new voices in international fiction. In Four Soldiers he tells the story of four young soldiers in Review: 'Four Soldiers,' by Hubert Mingarelli, translated from the French by Sam Taylor FICTION: A powerful tale of four young men who become friends during the Russian civil war.

Shelves: mbi [] Hubert Mingarelli’s Four Soldiers, translated from the French by Sam Taylor, is a small-scale homosocial drama set during the Russian Civil War in What could be a savage war novel turns into a rather gentle depiction of soldiers having a moment of respite. Hubert Mingarelli’s simple, powerful, and moving stories of men in combat have established him as one of the most exciting new voices in international fiction. In Four Soldiers he tells the story of four young soldiers in , members of the Red Army during the Russian civil war. It is set in the harsh dead of winter, just as the soldiers set up camp in a forest in Galicia near the Romanian front line. Hubert Mingarelli was born in Lorraine, France though lived much of his life in Grenoble. He won the Prix Medici in for his novel Four Soldiers (Quatre Soldats).A Meal In Winter (Un Repas d’Hiver), translated by Sam Taylor, was published in the UK in by Portobello books (now sadly defunct).