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Knopf
January 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 1400044553
EAN: 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 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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