House of MeetingsHouse of Meetings
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Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, First North American edition, All copies in use.Book, 2007
Current format, Book, 2007, First North American edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA haunting new novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as theWashington Posthas 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 Meetingsfinds Martin Amis at the height of his powers, in new and remarkably fertile fictional territory.
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