6 must-read novella books like Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli

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Four Soldiers

By: Hubert Mingarelli

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In Four Soldiers he tells the story of four young soldiers in 1919, members of the Red Army during …

If you liked the novella plot in Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Villa Des Roses

By: Willem Elsschot

3.54

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's pension in the shabby rue d'Armaille promis… read more

Similar categories in Willem Elsschot's Villa Des Roses book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • roman
  • fiction
"In deze periode was Grünewald werkelijk alleenheerser, en alle levenden en doden verloren met de dag veld in het hart van Louise."

-Willem Elsschot, Villa Des Roses

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2. Closely Watched Trains

By: Bohumil Hrabal , Josef Škvorecký , Edith Pargeter

3.74

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

Bohumil Hrabal's post-war classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovak… read more

Similar categories in Bohumil Hrabal's Closely Watched Trains book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • novella
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"آن غرش و سر و صدای یک قطار در حال حرکت،همیشه یکسان است،درست مثل زمان صلح که قطار، هر شب، مربع‌ها و مستطیل‌های نور را از پنجره‌های درخشان خود می‌پراکند."

-Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains

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3. Beatrice and Virgil

By: Yann Martel

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

This is the story of a donkey named Beatrice and a monkey named Virgil. It is also the story of an … read more

Similar categories in Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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4. Le Plongeur

By: Stéphane Larue

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Nous sommes a Montreal au debut de l'hiver 2002. Le narrateur n'a pas vingt ans. Il aime Clive Bark… read more

Similar categories in Stéphane Larue's Le Plongeur book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • roman
  • france
  • fiction

5. The Child in Time

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his onl… read more

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6. Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)

By: Pat Barker

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

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7. Darling

By: India Knight

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more

Similar categories in India Knight's Darling book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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9. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • novella
  • fiction
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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10. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • novella
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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12. Misunderstanding in Moscow

By: Simone de Beauvoir

3.71

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Nicole and André, a retired French couple, take a summer holiday to Russia. It is the 1960s and Rus… read more

Similar categories in Simone de Beauvoir's Misunderstanding in Moscow book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • russia
  • france
  • fiction
"I could have been someone else, but then it would be someone else questioning herself about her self."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Já se passaram três anos? [...] A rapidez com que os anos se passaram era angustiante. Quantas vezes ainda teria três anos para viver?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Sim, ela vai esquecer a igreja branca e dourada como tinha esquecido tantas outras. Aquela curiosidade que havia mantido quase intacta lhe parecia com frequência como uma sobrevivência obstinada: mas…"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

"Cada manhã, antes mesmo de abrir os olhos, ela reconhecia sua cama, seu quarto. Mas, às vezes, quando dormia de tarde, experimentava ao acordar aquela estupefação pueril: por que eu sou eu? Como se a…"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Misunderstanding in Moscow

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

13. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Tuhkaan piirretty maa

By: Petra Rautiainen

3.62

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Inari, 1944. Olavi Heiskanen työskentelee saksalaisten johtamalla vankileirillä, jossa paitsi vangi… read more

Similar categories in Petra Rautiainen's Tuhkaan piirretty maa book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. A Narrow Door (Malbry, #3)

By: Joanne Harris

3.94

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's A Narrow Door (Malbry, #3) book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Working at King Henry's, and later at St Oswald's, I had always had to be tough on myself, and gentle on men. Men are so very fragile, Roy; so unused to being challenged."

-Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door (Malbry, #3)

"I was surprised. It's not often that a woman receives an apology from a man, especially not in such circumstances. I am far more used to being told: You need to learn to take a joke, or; Why must you…"

-Joanne Harris, A Narrow Door (Malbry, #3)

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16. Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Rizzio book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • novella
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17. Fragile Animals

By: Genevieve Jagger

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Jagger's Fragile Animals book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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18. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo by José Luis González Macías

19. Breve atlas de los faros del fin del mundo

By: José Luis González Macías

4.25

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Sentinelle che si tengono ben salde ai loro scogli, i fari sono veri e propri monumenti ai segreti … read more

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20. Juillet

By: Marie Laberge

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Une fête familiale, intime, toute simple. Une célébration orchestrée par Simon, aidé de son fils… read more

Similar categories in Marie Laberge's Juillet book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • france
  • fiction
Cover of Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli

21. Four Soldiers

By: Hubert Mingarelli

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In Four Soldiers he tells the story of four young soldiers in 1919, members of the Red Army during … read more

Similar categories in Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers book and Hubert Mingarelli's Four Soldiers

  • world war i
  • literary fiction
  • russia
  • roman
  • historical
  • novella
  • war
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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0.00

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