The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogawa, Yōko, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Snyder, Stephen, 1957- translator.

Standardized Title:

Hisoyaka na kesshō. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Novelists--Fiction.

Novelists.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Dystopian fiction.

Physical Description:

274 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kesshō by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994."

ISBN:

9781101870600

1101870605

OCLC:

1080554306