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Martin Amis's recent book "Koba the Dread" (2002), a denunciation of Stalin's regime, was itself denounced by some critics. Why, they asked, had it taken Amis so long, until he was in his fifties, to realize that Stalin's Soviet Union was not a nice place? Books on the subject had been around for more than a half century. And why, given that fact, did Amis seem to think he was bringing us the news? Why his tone of indignation, as if everyone else were sitting around comfortably, indifferent to Stalin's crimes, and he alone remembered? Solzhenitsyn might bear a grudge, but Amis?
Such complaints did not put him off the subject. His new book, "House of Meetings" ...
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