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The Memory Police

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Translator Stephen Snyder
Length 9 hours 8 minutes
Language English
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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.

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Hat, ribbon, bird rose.

To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.

When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
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Finalist for the National Book Award 2019
Longlisted for the Translated Book Award 2020
New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year

'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian, Books of the Year

'Echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, but it has a voice and power all its own' Time

'A novel that makes us see differently... A masterpiece' Madeleine Thien

ยฉ2019 Yoko Ogawa (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirinoโ€™s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawaโ€™s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?

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ISBN:
9781529934144

Length:
9 hours 8 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Random House

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Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#4,798 Overall

Genre rank:
#88 in Apocalyptic & Dystopian

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Reviews

Masterly...Like Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, Yoko Ogawa's novel transforms a familiar metaphor into imaginative truth. The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no promises. It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision It's an age since I read a book as strange, beautiful and affectingโ€ฆ this haunting work reaches beyondโ€ฆto examine what it is to be humanโ€ฆ a remarkable writer In a feat of dark imagination, Yoko Ogawa stages an intimate, suspenseful drama of courage and endurance while conjuring up a world that is at once recognizable and profoundly strange Explores questions of power, trauma and state surveillance...particularly resonant now, at a time of rising authoritarianism across the globe. Expand reviews
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