Miller makes Homer pertinent to women facing 21st-century monsters. Expect Miller’s readership to mushroom like one of Circe’s spells.

When a young writer discovers that her editoris in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, andtogether they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel aboutthe trauma of loss. A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast. About fifteen years earlier, things started vanishing: the narrator begins, I sometimes wonder what was disappeared firstamong all the things that have vanished from the island. Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes,while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconianMemory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappearedremains forgotten. No inhabitant knows its size, its shape, or where it is.

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons,birds, roses. The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa | Stephen Snyder € 14.99 This item arrived at our Den Haag store within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days.įinalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book AwardĪ haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors. The Memory Police: A Novel Hardcover Augby Yoko Ogawa (Author), Stephen Snyder (Translator) 5,756 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 5.

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