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The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
"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." -- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101870600
- ISBN: 1101870605
- ISBN: 9780375715334
- ISBN: 0375715339
- ISBN: 9781101911815
- ISBN: 1101911816
- Physical Description: 274 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kesshō by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994." |
| Language Note: | Translated from the Japanese. |
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| Subject: | Loss (Psychology) > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Novelists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Dystopian fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.
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| 245 | 1 | 4. | ‡aThe memory police / ‡cYoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. |
| 250 | . | ‡aFirst American edition. | |
| 264 | 1. | ‡aNew York : ‡bPantheon Books, ‡c[2019] | |
| 300 | . | ‡a274 pages ; ‡c22 cm | |
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| 500 | . | ‡a"Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kesshō by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994." | |
| 520 | . | ‡a"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." -- Provided by publisher | |
| 546 | . | ‡aTranslated from the Japanese. | |
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