**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly
surprising novel set in 1946, starring two brothers and a Jewish girl
who fall into alignment in pogrom-poised Moscow--from "one of the most
gifted novelists of his generation" (Time).
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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.