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Publisher: Vintage
Author: Yoko Ogawa
ISBN: 9781101911815
Fiction, Dystopia
The Memory Police
by
Yoko Ogawa
The Memory Police by
Yoko Ogawa
Reviews
"A masterpiece. . . . A novel that makes us see differently. . . . It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision."
The Guardian
Summary
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award
