[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: The house of meetings
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:54:23 -0500
All,
I've just submitted for validation the following:
The house of meetings, by Martin Amis, Knopf, 2006.
From the book jacket:
"A novel that doesn't read like any other,
ranking as this renowned British author's
best. Inside the provocative, philosophical,
acerbic Amis, there has long seemed to be
a Russian novelist straining to break out.
Here, then, is Amis's contemporary version
of a classic Russian novel . . . The firstperson
memoir (or confession) confirms
Amis's mastery of tone and the ambiguities
of character [and] sustains the narrative
momentum of a mystery, though it seems
that some mysteries can never be solved."
KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review
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 stonesolid
genius ... a dazzling star of wit and
insight" (The Wall Street Journal}.
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