A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers.
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 most recent 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, and his
translation of Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?
The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be
experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a
novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in
inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and
grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no
promises. It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision
*Guardian*
It's an age since I read a book as strange, beautiful and
affecting… this haunting work reaches beyond…to examine what it is
to be human… a remarkable writer
*Sunday Times*
Masterly...Like Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad and Mohsin
Hamid's Exit West, Yoko Ogawa's novel transforms a familiar
metaphor into imaginative truth.
*The New Yorker*
In a feat of dark imagination, Yoko Ogawa stages an intimate,
suspenseful drama of courage and endurance while conjuring up a
world that is at once recognizable and profoundly strange
*Wall Street Journal*
Explores questions of power, trauma and state
surveillance...particularly resonant now, at a time of rising
authoritarianism across the globe.
*New York Times, pick of the month*
The fresh take on 1984 you didn't know you needed.
*Washington Post*
This is a work of immense precision that is drawing on allegory,
that is drawing on myth, that is drawing on dystopia and is doing
that deftly. It is the work of a Japanese master who transcends her
cultural context to speak to us on a level that is universal.
The acclaimed Japanese writer’s fifth English release is an
elegantly spare dystopian fable...Reading The Memory Police is like
sinking into a snowdrift: lulling yet suspenseful, it tingles with
dread and incipient numbness.
*New York Times Book Review*
Ogawa exploits the psychological complexity of…[a] bizarre
situation to impressive effect… her achievement is to weave in a
far more personal sense of the destruction and distortion of the
psyche
*Observer*
One of Japan’s most acclaimed authors explores truth, state
surveillance and individual autonomy. Ogawa’s fable echoes the
themes of George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, and
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice
and power all its own.
*TIME Magazine, Best Books of Summer 2019*
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