The Memory Police
$27.30
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses…
To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river, or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529988413 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529988411 |
| Author: | Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 135mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics Japanese Series |
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About The Author
Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris, and Revenge. Her dystopian novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.
He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004. His translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011, and The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
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