The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
By: Ogawa, Yōko [author.].
Contributor(s): Snyder, Stephen [translator.].
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, ©2019Edition: First American edition.Description: 274 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781101870600.Uniform titles: Hisoyaka na kesshō. English Subject(s): Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction | Memory -- Fiction | Novelists -- FictionGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her career is in danger, she hides her editor beneath her floorboards, and together, as fear and loss close in around them, they cling to literature as the last way of preserving the past. Part allegory, part literary thriller, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language"--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PL858.G37 H5713 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015192 |
"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kessho by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994."
"A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her career is in danger, she hides her editor beneath her floorboards, and together, as fear and loss close in around them, they cling to literature as the last way of preserving the past. Part allegory, part literary thriller, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language"--