An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amisβs standing as βa force unto himself,β as The Washington Post has attested: βThere is, quite simply, no one else like him.β
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 βAmis is a stone-solid genius . . . a dazzling star of wit and insightβ (The Wall Street Journal).
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