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Learn moreThere 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 massacre 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.
Martin Amis (1949-2023) was an English novelist and screenwriter. His novels Night Train and London Fields made the New York Times bestsellers list. His memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and two of his books were finalists for the Booker Prize. His novel Money was named by the London’s The Guardian as one of the top 100 Best Novels Written in English. He was a professor of creative writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester until 2011.
Jeff Woodman is the winner of multiple Earphones Awards, and he was named the 2008 Best Voice in Fiction & Classics as well as one of the “Fifty Greatest Voices of the Century” by AudioFile magazine. His credits include Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Life of Pi, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Some of his non-fiction works include Dr. Perricone's 7 Secrets to Beauty, Health and Longevity and The Intellectual Devotional: American History.
On stage, Woodman starred in the title role in Tennessee William's The Notebook of Trigorin, and he received the S.F. Bay Area Critic's Circle Award for his performance in An Ideal Husband. Woodman has also participated in numerous ESL programs and cartoon voices for Japanese animation.
Reviews
“House of Meetings is a powerful, unrelenting, and deeply affecting performance: a bullet train of a novel that barrels deep into the heart of darkness that was the Soviet gulag and takes the reader along on an unnerving journey into one of history’s most harrowing chapters.”
“Very fine, very moving and easily Amis’ most accessible fiction since The Information.”
“Its narrator is one of those vibrant monsters of nihilism, a Stalin in miniature, like Philip Roth’s Mickey Sabbath or John Lanchester’s Tarquin Winot. Here is evil, as creepy as it is unforgettable.”
“The narrator is a man whose done terrible things and is able to look at them philosophically—a perfect character for a fearless writer like Amis.”
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