A review by milesjmoran
A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli

5.0

This is a brief but starkly chilling book. Mingarelli could have easily extended this, detailing the lives of its handful of characters, but instead opts to withhold this sort of information, compacting everything you need to know into the one day in which the story is set. Everything about this book is minimal apart from the emotion and its impact. I really love the fact it is from the perspective of the characters who are usually depicted as the antagonists (the ones doing the hunting and killing) and it humanizes them perfectly. Mingarelli is extremely tactful and clever in his writing of these characters (the soldiers, the Polish man, and the Jew) and it is just an absolutely beautiful book.