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House of Meetings

By Martin Amis

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| Hardcover | 9781400044559

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An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as The Washington Post has attested: “There is, quite simply, no one else like him.”

House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shapContinue

An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as The Washington Post has attested: “There is, quite simply, no one else like him.”

House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.

Harrowing, endlessly surprising, epic in breadth yet intensely intimate, House of Meetings reveals once again that “Amis is a stone-solid genius . . . a dazzling star of wit and insight” (The Wall Street Journal).

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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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