The memory police : a novel /
Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-
The memory police : a novel / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. - First American edition. - 274 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kessho by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994."
"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"--
9781101870600 1101870605
2018057224
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.
The memory police : a novel / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. - First American edition. - 274 pages ; 22 cm
"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kessho by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994."
"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"--
9781101870600 1101870605
2018057224
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.