House of Meetings
| Author | Martin Amis |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Peter Mendelsund and Chip Kidd (USA edition) |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Random House Group Ltd |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 242pp (USA edition) |
| ISBN | NA |
House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, is a 2006 novel about two brothers who share a common love interest while
living in a Soviet gulag during the last decade of
Stalin's rule.
Plot summary
The novel centers around the modern-day (2004) recollections of the unnamed narrator/protagonist of his time spent in an Arctic gulag and the years that followed. The recollections are presented in the form of a memoir sent to the narrator's American step-daughter, Venus. One of the primary plot elements is the complex relationship between the protagonist and his younger half-brother, Lev, who later joins him in the camp. Through many difficult revelations and trials, they eventually survive the harsh conditions of the camp and then must face a further challenge: re–acclimatizing to everyday life.
Literary significance and criticism
The novel's release was greeted with generally positive reviews; see, e.g., The Economist's October review. [1]
Footnotes
- ^ Comeback man. economist.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
| Works by Martin Amis | |
|---|---|
| Novels: | The Rachel Papers (1973) • Dead Babies (1975) • Success (1978) • Other People (1981) • Money: A Suicide Note (1984) • London Fields (1989) • Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence (1991) • The Information (1995) • Night Train (1997) • Yellow Dog (2003) • House of Meetings (2006) • The Pregnant Widow (2007) |
| Short stories: | "Two Stories" (1994) |
| Short story collections: | Einstein's Monsters (1987) • God's Dice (1995) • Heavy Water: And Other Stories (1998) • State of England: And Other Stories (1998) • Amis Omnibus (1999) • The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000) • Vintage Amis (2004) |
| Screenplays: | London Fields • Saturn 3 |
| Non-fiction: | Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982) • The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America (1986) • Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions (1993) • Experience (2000) • The War Against Cliché (2001) • (2002) |
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