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Hubert Mingarelli’s short, beautiful novel about friendship and the fragments of happiness that illuminate the darkness. Translated by Sam Taylor.A narrator remembers the harsh winter of 1919, fighting in the Russian Civil War on the Romanian front. Setting up camp in a forest, he and his closest friends from the battalion discover a pond, which becomes a secret place for the four young men to smoke, rest, wash and talk. Four Soldiers is about those precious months of waiting. Precious time before spring comes and their battalion moves on - and the inevitable resumption of war and its horror. Recalling great works like Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry, Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, and Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Four Soldiers is a timeless and tender story of young male friendships and the small, idyllic moments of happiness that can illuminate the darkness of war."With elegance and precision, Mingarelli dramatizes the steady blossoming of friendships and the abrupt end of innocence ... Four Soldiers is no hectic and chaotic war novel. It unfolds in short, tightly focused chapters, and in spare, crystalline prose (beautifully translated by Sam Taylor). Most of the

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Author

Hubert Mingarelli

Publisher

The New Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846276507

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

4.2 / 5 (114 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14