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The Memory Police
Yôko Ogawa
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Description for The Memory Police
Paperback.
**Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020**
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . .
Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.
To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river, or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784700447
SKU
9781784700447
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Ref
99-2
About Yôko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese ... Read more
Reviews for The Memory Police
The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no promises. It is a rare work ... Read more