01948nam a22002897a 4500 20260226133019.0 260226b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781101911815 HSLRC FIC .O49me 2019 Ogawa, Yōko, 1962- author. 61127 The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. First American edition. New York : Pantheon Books, c2019 274 pages 22 cm rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc "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"-- Provided by publisher. Loss (Psychology) Fiction. 61128 Memory Fiction. 61129 Novelists Fiction. 61130 Science Fiction. 61131 Snyder, Stephen, 1957- translator. 61132 lcc BK 98901 98901 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC HSLRC HSLRC FIC 2026-02-26 Sketchbook/Fullybook 515.20 0 FIC .O49me 2019 HS14989 2026-02-26 00:00:00 1 515.20 2026-02-26 BK