Memory Police

AvYoko Ogawa

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . .Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.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?'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia TolentinoWHAT READERS ARE SAYING‘I cried. . . cracking ending’ 5* reader review‘I loved it!’ 5* reader review‘A must read’ 5* reader review‘Worth 6 stars… what a novel!’ 5* reader review‘Dark and unsettling - a fantastic read’ 5* reader review*SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE*

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-06
Mått:128 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt:205 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9781784700447
Översättare:Stephen Snyder
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for The Kitschies Red Tentacle Award 2020 (UK)

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Yoko Ogawa (Author) Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her dystopian novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.Stephen Snyder (Translator) Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 and The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.

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The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no promises. It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision