The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award

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 floorboards, 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.

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American Book Award winner

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	9781101911815
ISBN 10	1101911816
Title	The Memory Police
Author	Yoko Ogawa
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-07-28
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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