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House of meetings

In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.

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  • "House of Meetings is a love story, gothic in timbre and triangular in shape. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century."
  • "In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century."@en
  • "In the title novella, the rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from 1946 Moscow to a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a haunting influence on three characters."
  • "In the title novella, the rivalry between two brothers in love with the same Jewish girl moves from 1946 Moscow to a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the House of Meetings will have a haunting influence on three characters."@en
  • "Relates the tale of two brothers and a Jewish girl in a Russian slave labor camp in 1946."@en
  • "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. This title is about one such liaison."@en
  • "Memoires van een verbitterde Russische migrant die na ruim twintig jaar terugkeert naar zijn geboorteland waar hij vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog door het Stalinregime tot jarenlange dwangarbeid in een Siberisch werkkamp werd veroordeeld."
  • "An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master. In 1946, two brothers and a Jewish girl fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow. The fraternal conflict then marinates in Norlag, a slave-labor camp above the Arctic Circle, where a tryst in the coveted House of Meetings will haunt all three lovers long after the brothers are released. And for the narrator, the sole survivor, the reverberations continue into the new century.From the Trade Paperback edition."@en

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Historical novels"
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historické romány"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "La maison des rencontres"
  • "House of meetings"
  • "House of meetings"@en
  • "Lamaison des rencontres : roman"
  • "La casa de los encuentros"@es
  • "La casa degli incontri"
  • "La casa degli incontri"@it
  • "Casa de trobades"
  • "A casa dos encontros"
  • "La maison des rencontres : roman"
  • "Dom schadzek"@pl
  • "Casa de encontros"
  • "La Casa de los encuentros"
  • "House of Meetings"
  • "House of Meetings"@en
  • "Haus der Begegnungen : Roman"
  • "Hiša srečanj"@sl
  • "Mødernes Hus"@da
  • "Návštěvní barák"
  • "Nachthuis"
  • "La maison des rencontres : roman /cMartin Amis ; tradyut de l'anglais par Bernard Hoepffner ; avec la collaboration de Catherine Goffaux"

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