The memory police : a novel

Author

Yōko Ogawa

Call Number

• FICTION OGAW (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]

Physical Description

274 pages ; 22 cm

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"--

Notes

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