House of Meetings, Martin Amis
House of Meetings, Martin Amis
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House of Meetings

Author: Martin Amis

Narrator: Jeff Woodman

Unabridged: 7 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2010

Synopsis

There 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.

About Martin Amis

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.

About Jeff Woodman

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

Goodreads review by Maciek

It's not that House of Meetings is a bad book; it's that it is simply not a necessary one. It is well-written and engaging, but doesn't add anything to Gulag literature - a genre populated by works by authentic survivors, such as the stories of Varlam Shalamov, memoirs of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński......more

Goodreads review by MJ

This is the last Martin Amis novel I will ever read. Utter pants. I blame Christopher Allen for giving this one five stars and making me curious. Thanks mate. What is it about? Who cares. Whether writing about amnesiac women, porn moguls, talentless writers, or life in a Gulag, the end product is alw......more

Goodreads review by Nood-Lesse

A te, niente, da te, tutto (*1) Devo riconoscere che leggendo in digitale, oltre al rapporto fisico con il libro, viene a mancare l’interazione con la copertina. Quella de “La casa degli incontri”, intravista in rete, era una bell’immagine del sole riflesso dall’acqua. A fine lettura mi interrogavo s......more

Quotes

“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.” New York Times

“Very fine, very moving and easily Amis’ most accessible fiction since The Information.” Seattle Times

“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.” Newsday

“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.”  Booklist (starred review)

Awards

  • Time Magazine Top 10 Book
  • New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books
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