by Martin Amis · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780307386663
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«House of Meetings» is the novel by Martin Amis, published by Random House in paperback (241 pages, in English).
In 1946 Moscow, two brothers and a young Jewish woman form a love triangle. The brothers end up in a Siberian camp and survive the brutality of the gulag while Zoya's visit to the «house of meetings» will mark their lives. The narration, by a Red Army veteran, explores love, guilt and the cruelty of Stalinism.
Originally published in 2006, the novel is set in the Soviet Union of the Stalinist era and falls within historical fiction.
For readers of literary fiction, especially those interested in the Soviet period and in Martin Amis's narrative.
Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money (1984) and London Fields (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir Experience and was twice listed for the Booker Prize. Amis was a professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing from 2007 until 2011. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
