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    The Memory Police: A Novel

    Written by Yoko Ogawa

    Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama

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    About this audiobook

    A haunting 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, 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 wiring 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.

    Editor's Note

    Quiet dreaminess…

    There’s a quiet dreaminess to Yoko Ogawa’s writing that makes the novel more atmospheric than allegorical. It’s a testament to Ogawa’s skills — as well as her translator’s — that this fairly slim novel can conjure so much contemplation while remaining a tightly woven story and an utter page-turner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 13, 2019
    ISBN9780525634270
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    The Memory Police: A Novel
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    Yoko Ogawa

    Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Hotel Iris. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor has been adapted into a film, The Professor’s Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.

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      it explores a good idea, but stretches the content to unnecessary length and feels a bit repetitive towards the last third