Posted on 20/01/07
The gulag and its children
House of MeetingsBy Martin AmisKnopf Canada, 256 pages, $29.95In the "little zona," where much of House of Meetings takes place, there is ultra-violence between the brutes and the bitches. Brutes are urkas, or socially friendly elements, content with their status near the top of the prison-camp food chain. Bitches are urkas who aspire to reach the summit as administrators or guards. Their class goes by the title of pigs.
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