House of Meetings

Martin Amis

House of Meetings
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 December 2007
Pages
208
ISBN
9780099488682

House of Meetings

Martin Amis

A new reissue series of Martin Amis’s novels to mark his 70th birthday

‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic.

House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is a triangular romance- two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for pogrom in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin. Both brothers are arrested, and their rivalry slowly complicates itself over a decade in the slave camp above the Arctic Circle.

‘It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force’ Observer

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