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The Memory Police

By Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder
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Publisher Description

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 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.

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American Book Award winner

3449 Reviews

3.5
Thinking Face“Hi! The book is intriguing and raises important issues of modern and not so modern society. Totalitarianism and memory loss are the main themes. If you lose your memory, do you lose your identity? What will happen in the end? Will good conquer evil? Or will evil destroy everything in its path? This is what you will learn by reading this book”
Unforgettable protagonist
Anxious Face with sweat“Started off so well and just unfortunately left me confused and without the closure I hoped for: 😞”
Feel distantLimited character growthStrong relationshipsConfusingLoose endsSlow-pacedBeautifully-written
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Change and growDiverse representationMemorableMultilayeredStrong relationshipsUnforgettable protagonist
Feel distantOriginalUnsatisfying conclusionBleak

About Yoko Ogawa

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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