The memory police / Yoko Ogawa / translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder

Advanced search

Libraries

Topic navigation

Expand your search

Search results

Back

Save

1784700444

Paperback The memory police / Yoko Ogawa / translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder

Author: Ogawa, Yõko

Author: Snyder, Stephen

Year: 2020

Interest category: General fiction novels

Media class: Paperback

Category: Fiction

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2020

ISBN: 1784700444 9781784700447

Control number 1784700444

Description:

This translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2019

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? The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from one of Japan's greatest writers. For readers of The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

GNR, General Fiction