Author:Martin Amis
‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review
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 pogrom 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.
‘It is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force’ Observer
This novella is the best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years: very complex, very forceful, startling in the amount of ground it covers, and densely and intelligently put together
—— Literary ReviewAn ambitious feat...the result is brilliant
—— IndependentIt is difficult not to be impressed by this compact tour de force... Amis has produced a memorable novel and a memorable protagonist
—— ObserverA singular, unimpeachable triumph
—— The EconomistUnmistakably Amis's best novel since London Fields...a slender, moving novel, streaked with dark comedy
—— Sunday TimesUndeniably, distinctively identifiable, vintage Martin
—— Independent on SundayThe novel has a cumulative power and resonates with many reflections about the course of individual destiny in a profoundly cruel universe
—— The TimesThis is Amis writing at the pitch he has reached in Money...remarkable
—— Times Literary SupplementA compelling work of fiction in which learning and imagination are beautifully counterpoised
—— New StatesmanSavage, hilarious, uncannily moving, and true. It's the first novel I've read that burns with all the madness, sadness and refracted terror of right now, and everyone should read it. Right now
—— Jacob PolleyThis is a book which does more than just take you on a journey through the last twenty years. It also has a lot to say about family eccentricities, about childhood and adulthood and the difficulties faced in trying to be either, given the times we live alongside
—— Matt HaigThe book is magnificent, understated, full of gentle mind grenades
—— Cliff JonesFunny and rich and dirty and taut and original. I wanted it to be my biography, but there was way more warmth and invention in it than you could fit in a lifetime
—— David WhitehouseFunny, sad, bewildering and painfully honest, it’s a must-read for all fans of Joe Dunthorne’s Submarine
—— Emerald StreetFunny and true
—— ListWhat a beautifully written first novel. Joe Stretch has a way with words that is intensely captivating… Superb on adolescence, the Nineties, and more
—— William Leith , Evening StandardA consistently amusing hymn to unfulfilled potential which grows more involving and poignant as it goes on
—— Alastair Mabbott , HeraldJim is such a likeable character, unflinchingly recounting in all his worst failures and humiliations
—— Brandon Robshaw , Independent on SundayA funny, wryly observed coming-of-age novel, it will strike a chord with anyone who grew up during the Noughties. It’s full of quirky period details and Jim is an engaging narrator
—— Mail on Sunday
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