Books Details
Author : Y?ko Ogawa Pages : 274 pages Publisher : Pantheon
Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1101870605 ISBN-13 :
9781101870600
Books Descriptions
A haunting, Orwellian novel about the terrors of state
surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and
the ProfessorOn an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects
are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses?until
things become much more serious. Most of the island's
inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few
imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear
of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring
that what has disappeared remains forgotten.When a young woman
who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist
discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police,
she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As
fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing
as the last way of preserving the past.A surreal, provocative
fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The
Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most
exciting contemporary authors
