The memory police / Yoko Ogawa; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
By: Ogawa, Yoko
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Contributor(s): Snyder, Stephen [Translator].
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BookPlace of publication: New YorkPublisher: Vintage BooksDate of publication: 2020Edition: 1st edition.Description: 274 pages: 21 cm.ISBN: 9781101911815.Other title: Hisoyaka na kessho (Japanese).Subject(s): Memory -- Fiction | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction | State crimesDDC classification: F Og1 2020 MEM Summary: On an unnamed island, objects keep 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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| F N644 2015 ALL All the bright places / | F N81111 2016 TOB To be or not to be : | F N943 2021 LAS The last graduate: A novel: | F Og1 2020 MEM The memory police / | F Oh38 2022 SAK Naruto: Sakura's story: | F Os81 2019 RAD Radio silence / | F Ow27 2018 WHE Where the crawdads sing / |
On an unnamed island, objects keep 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.
(From the back cover)
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