AMIS

Breath was just another weapon - TLS Highlights - Times Online:

"A spare, even austere performance, Amis’s striking new novel marks an extension of the dark thread that surfaces in works such as Einstein’s Monsters (1987), Time’s Arrow (1991) and, most pertinently, the working through of personal and collective animus in Koba the Dread (2002); and if early works such as The Rachel Papers (1973) and Dead Babies (1975) now have a layer of unintentional historical quaintness about them, House of Meetings sees Amis working self-consciously in the mode of historical fiction, to powerful effect."