The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

*** 2019 NATIONAL BOK AWARD FINALIST ***
*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOK AWARD ***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOKS OF THE YEAR ***

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power 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 woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.

A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas; The Housekeeper and the Professor; Hotel Iris; and Revenge. She lives in Hyogo.

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ISBN 13	9781101870600
ISBN 10	1101870605
Title	The Memory Police
Author	Yoko Ogawa
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2019-08-13
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of American Book Award 2020, Short-listed for Man Booker International Prize 2020, Short-listed for National Book Awards 2019
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