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020			_a9781101911815
040			_cHSLRC
050			_aFIC _b.O49me 2019
100			_aOgawa, Yōko, _d 1962- _eauthor. _961127
245			_aThe memory police / _cYoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264			_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _cc2019
300			_a274 pages _c22 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext _b txt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_a"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kessho by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994."
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aLoss (Psychology) _vFiction. _961128
650			_aMemory _vFiction. _961129
650			_aNovelists _vFiction. _961130
655			_aScience Fiction. _961131
700			_aSnyder, Stephen, _d1957- _etranslator. _961132
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c98901 _d98901