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House of Meetings
 

House of Meetings

by Martin Amis

House of Meetings Is an Amazon Significant Seven selection for March 2007 With The House of Meetings, Martin Amis may finally have written the novel his critics thought would never come. By taming his signature (and polarizing) stylistic high-wire act, Amis has crafted a sober tale of love and cynicism against the grim curtain of Stalin's Russia. The book's anonymous narrator--a Red... (read more)

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LeAnn G
  • Rated 4 stars

“This book is about two brothers and a woman they both love. It's also about living in Russia - before, during and after "The Great Patriotic War" (WWII). It's about reversals in fortune and the bonds of family. Its brutal and beautiful at the same time. Before the war, the narrator and his family live, I guess, a pretty decent life for the times, in a literary household. The narrator goes to war and leaves a decorated hero, briefly, before he's sent to a forced labor camp, located deep...”

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Elisabeth B
  • Rated 2 stars

“It is a love story but Russian love in a callous way. I think this novel is plenty of blood, pain, misery and love in Russian style. Maybe Amis tried to imitate Russian classic authors as Dostoyevsky in 'Crime and Punishment' or Tolstoi's style in "War and Peace" (but without any romantic scene in the part "Peace"). So, in my opinion, Amis failed.

Personally, I was deeply affected by this novel and I actually hate the main character, this Russian decorated soldier and his...”

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  • Rated 4 stars
  

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