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Memory Police: A Novel 🔍
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, International Booker Prize Shortlist, 2019
Yōko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder 🔍
description
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. Translated by Stephen Snyder.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 novelist discovers her editor is in danger of being detained by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and it becomes increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? Part allegory, part literary thriller, The Memory Police is a deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.'Yōko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.' - Kenzaburō ŌeYōko Ogawa (小川 洋子), writer and novelist, was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction anjd has won every major Japanese literary award available.
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lgli/Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police (epub)
Alternative title
The Memory Police
Alternative author
Yōko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder
Alternative author
Ogawa Yoko
Alternative publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Alternative publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Alternative publisher
Random House AudioBooks
Alternative publisher
Pantheon Books
Alternative edition
United States, United States of America
Alternative edition
First American edition, New York, 2019
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lg_fict_id_2405031
Alternative description
"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power 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 woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language." -- Provided by publisher
Alternative description
De bewoners van een eiland krijgen het steeds lastiger als steeds meer zaken vanwege staatswege verdwijnen. NL-ZmNBD
date open sourced
2021-02-27
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