Name: The Memory Police (in English)
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Author: Yoko Ogawa
ISBN: 9781101911815

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yoko Ogawa

Translated by

Stephen Snyder

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781101911815

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Memory Police (in English)"

Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able 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 writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARTHE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUBAmerican Book Award winner

Yoko Ogawa

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(Okayama, 1962) Escritora japonesa que ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor. La magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria quedó finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub. Su obra está inspirada por el autor Kenzaburo Oe y Anna Frank.

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