House of Meetings
Author: Martin Amis
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….Read More
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