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

Publisher: AudioGO

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. A 2007 Time Magazine Top 10 Book for Fiction. One of the 2007 New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books for Fiction.

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