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Book Summary. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in Moscow. The fraternal conflict then continues 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.
Plot summary. Literary significance and criticism. Footnotes. External links. Further reading. House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, is a 2006 novel about two brothers who share a common love interest while living in a Soviet gulag during the last decade of Stalin's rule.
- Martin Amis
- 2006
18. Sept. 2006 · An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis’s standing as “a force unto himself,” as The Washington Post has “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.
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"House of Meetings' is a powerful, unrelenting and deeply affecting performance: a bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on an unnerving journey into one of history's most harrowing chapters.
- Martin Amis
- House of Meetings
- Novel
- 2006
Summary. Excerpt. Reviews. BookBrowse. Media Reviews. Reader Reviews. BookBrowse: a love triangle of gothic timbre set in a post-WWII Russian gulag. Novel. House of Meetings is a tale of envy, conscience and ethics set against the harsh backdrop of the gulag period, which has rarely been novelized by English-speaking writers.
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