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House of Meetings

By Martin Amis

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| Paperback | 9780676977882

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A haunting new novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as the Washington Post has attested: “There is simply no one else like him.”

In the slave labour camps of the Soviet Union, conjugal visits were a common occurrence. ValiaContinue

A haunting new novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as the Washington Post has attested: “There is simply no one else like him.”

In the slave labour camps of the Soviet Union, conjugal visits were a common occurrence. Valiant women would travel vast distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending just one night with their lovers in the so-called House of Meetings. Unsurprisingly, the results of these visits were almost invariably tragic.

Martin Amis’s new novel, The House of Meetings, is about one such visit; it is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. Two brothers fall in love with the same woman, a nineteen-year-old Jewish girl, in 1946 Moscow, a city poised for pogrom in the gap between war and the death of Stalin. The brothers are arrested, and their fraternal conflict then marinates over the course of a decade in a slave labour camp above the Arctic Circle. The destinies of all three lovers remain unresolved until 1982; but for the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the next century.

A short novel of great depth and richness, The House of Meetings finds Martin Amis at the height of his powers, in new and remarkably fertile fictional territory.


From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Decline and fall

    House of Meetings by Martin Amis 198pp, Jonathan Cape, £15.99 "There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR," begins the jacket copy of Martin Amis's 11th novel. Valiant women travelled "continental distances" to spend a night with their ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Lessons from the gulag

    House of Meetings by Martin Amis Cape £15.99, pp198 Martin Amis's new novel is billed by its narrator as a love story; from the off, we know that it's going to be a twisted one. Immediately, a qualifier is inserted: 'All right. Russian love,' our nar ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 067697788X
  • ISBN-13: 9780676977882
  • Publisher: Vintage Canada
  • Pub date: Jan 08, 2008
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages Libros en Galego
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