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House of Meetings - Martin Amis
House of Meetings
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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... show more
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780307386663
Publisher: Vintage International
Edition language: English
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notyourmonkey
notyourmonkey rated it
3.0 House of Meetings
Hm. I think I just may not be cut out for traditional literary fiction, even when there seems to be a ripping good story attached. While there was a very distinctive narrative voice and a lot of the ideological rambling is very much in support of defining who that character is, after a certain point...
CrowdedMinds a.k.a. Rita
CrowdedMinds a.k.a. Rita rated it
2.0 HOUSE OF MEETINGS
I have no doubt that Martin Amis is an exceptional writer; I can surely see skill when I see it, the man writes beautifully and hence the two stars. This book just didn't do it for me. Not because of the style it was written in, clearly, skill is there, but it was more the story itself that bothered...
cczarneckikernus
cczarneckikernus rated it
4.0 House of Meetings
In-depth read of a Russian killer and his (lack of) emotional journey of life as a prisoner, looking back as an old man, in letters to his stepdaughter.
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it
3.0
What a relief that Amis's next novel after the disastrous Yellow Dog was quite good. Not, I thought, as good as the ones from the 80s and 90s, but absolutely nothing to be ashamed of either. The image referred to by the title is very powerful, also the horrible rape scene near the end.
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