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House of Meetings

by Martin Amis

Knopf

January 2007, 256 pages, $23.00

by Connie Ogle

The Miami Herald

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Former Gulag prisoner revisits Russia's bloody past in Martin Amis' grim but essential 'House of Meetings'.

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