It clarifies all the things our wired society muddles, especially, and most profoundly, the saving grace of the human touch.' -Hillary Kelly, Vulture 'Profoundly powerful. It's a perfect correction to the overwrought politico-apocalyptic fiction so fashionable in These Times. A harrowing parable about the importance of memory and the profound danger of cultural amnesia.' - Esquire 'One of my favorite novels of the decade. Ogawa finds new ways to express old anxieties about authoritarianism, environmental depredation and humanity's willingness to be complicit in its own demise.' - The Washington Post 'Timely, provocative reading. It tingles with dread.' - The New York Times Book Review 'Quietly devastating. an intimate, suspenseful drama of courage and endurance.' - The Wall Street Journal ' masterly novel.' - The New Yorker 'An elegantly spare dystopian fable.

It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision.' - The Guardian 'A feat of dark imagination. A masterful work of speculative fiction.' -Chicago Tribune 'Ogawa's fable echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own.' - Time 'A masterpiece. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * TIME * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * T HE GUARDIAN * ESQUIRE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * FINANCIAL TIMES * LIBRARY JOURNAL * THE A.V. Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. 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. 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.

On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses.

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.

Yoko ogawa's the memory police