The Memory Police
A Novel
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The Memory Police
Narrateur(s):
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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Narrateur(s):
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Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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Auteur(s):
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Yoko Ogawa
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Stephen Snyder - translator
*** LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND THE 2020 TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD ***
*** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ***
A haunting 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, 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 writing in any language.
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great story, meh narration
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mysterious
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This is a many layered tale but only two of the layers are obvious. While it sounds like science fiction sometimes to me it reads more like a gentle reminder of the reality of having some form of dementia. I'm very familiar with this as I just lost my Mom and she had dementia with Lewy Bodies. She died from something unrelated but after caregiving her for over five years this book hit me like a brick.
The writing is very cuturally Japanese and I love it's slow flow and simplicity. It's one of the reasons I'm a real fan of Japanese literature. Putting a dystopian twist on this for me is genius and even if it wasn't the intent of the author to be a story with a layer about truly forgetting it still resonated with me. The slow but yet more frequent disappearances of objects are unsettling and the progression of what you suspect is coming is artfully done.
Yoko Ogawa is wonderful and I hope she has a lot more stories because I want to read or listen to them all even if they make me cry. The narrator was perfect. Never letting the more unsettling parts make her reading more histrionic she kept with her more nuanced performance. This may well become a new favourite for me.
Dystopian? Possibly
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Beautiful imagery
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The ending was disappointing
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