A beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s greatest writers.
When a young writer discovers that her editoris in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, andtogether they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel aboutthe trauma of loss. Reading The Memory Police is like sinking into a snowdrift: lulling yet suspenseful, it tingles with dread and incipient numbness. The Memory Police Written by Yoko Ogawa Translated by Stephen Snyder Shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes,while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconianMemory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappearedremains forgotten. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons,birds, roses.
The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa | Stephen Snyder € 14.99 This item arrived at our Den Haag store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days.įinalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book AwardĪ haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. The Memory Police is a hypnotic, gentle novel, that begins as a surveillance-state dystopia and ends as something more existential: a surreal and haunting.
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