Informationen zum Autor 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 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. Klappentext On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police. 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 it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 'I cried. . . cracking ending' 5* reader review 'I loved it!' 5* reader review 'A must read' 5* reader review 'Worth 6 stars... what a novel!' 5* reader review 'Dark and unsettling - a fantastic read' 5* reader review SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Zusammenfassung Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police. 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 it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian ...

Klappentext

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

Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.

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 it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times

**'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian

'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING**
'I cried. . . cracking ending' 5* reader review
'I loved it!' 5* reader review
'A must read' 5* reader review
'Worth 6 stars... what a novel!' 5* reader review
'Dark and unsettling - a fantastic read' 5* reader review

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

Zusammenfassung

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020

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

Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those who remember live in fear of the Memory Police.

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 it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?

'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times

'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian