The Memory Police

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals & 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, & together, as fear & loss close in around them, they cling to literature as the last way of preserving the past. 

Part allegory, part literary thriller, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.

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Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子), writer & novelist, was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, & lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction & nonfiction & has won every major Japanese literary award available.