Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? __________ Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 Longlisted for the Translated Book Award 2020 New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year 'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian, Books of the Year 'Echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, but it has a voice and power all its own' Time 'A novel that makes us see differently... A masterpiece' Madeleine Thien
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Jia Tolentino reviews “The Memory Police,” a novel by Yoko Ogawa, from 1994, which was published in an English translation by Stephen Snyder earlier this year.
The Memory Police is a melancholy Kafka-esque novel, one that clearly owes a huge debt to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
When a young woman discovers that her editors' in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him. Click to read my review.
An island community facing disappearances, not only of objects but of complete concepts, makes for an unsettling novel
I can’t stop thinking about Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police.
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