‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review
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.
‘It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force’ Observer
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Literary Review
An ambitious feat...the result is brilliant
Independent
It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force... Amis has produced a memorable novel and a memorable protagonist
Observer
A singular, unimpeachable triumph
The Economist
Unmistakably Amis's best novel since London Fields...a slender, moving novel, streaked with dark comedy
Sunday Times
Undeniably, distinctively identifiable, vintage Martin
Independent on Sunday
The novel has a cumulative power and resonates with many reflections about the course of individual destiny in a profoundly cruel universe
The Times
This is Amis writing at the pitch he has reached in Money...remarkable
Times Literary Supplement
I read it as slowly as I could. I savoured every page, like sucking the mints from my hotel's reception down to shards. I tried to keep from finishing it, but couldn't help myself, and cursed when the book was done A compelling work of fiction in which learning and imagination are beautifully counterpoised
New Statesman