"Vivid and scarifying. . . . The book gnaws at one's memory. Amis tries to imagine history with the intimacy and specificity that the greatest historical novelists, including Tolstoy, have always presumed to seek for it." --The Washington Post Book World"Arguably his most powerful book yet. . . . A[n] 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." --The New York Times "House of Meetings reminds us of Dostoyevsky. . . . A whole dome of meanings, a specific emotional world-hunger, desire, disgust, rottenness-rises around us." --The New Yorker"Very fine, very moving and easily Amis' most accessible fiction since The Information."--The Seattle Times