The Memory Police Yoko Ogawa

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest The Memory Police: Yoko Ogawa Product DescriptionShortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino__________Hat, ribbon, bird 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__________Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 Longlisted for the Translated Book Award 2020New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian, Books of the Year'Echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, but it has a voice and power all its own' Time'A novel that makes us see differently... A masterpiece' Madeleine ThienReviewThe Memory Police isa masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It isa 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 -- Madeleine Thien GuardianIt's an age since I read a book asstrange, beautiful and affecting this haunting work reaches beyondto examine what it is to be human a remarkable writer Sunday TimesMasterly...Like Colson WhiteheadsUnderground Railroad and Mohsin HamidsExit West, Yoko Ogawas novel transforms a familiar metaphor into imaginative truth. -- Jia Tolentino The New YorkerIn a feat of dark imagination, Yoko Ogawa stagesan intimate, suspenseful drama of courage and endurance while conjuring up a world that is at once recognizable and profoundly strange Wall Street JournalExplores questions of power, trauma and state surveillance...particularlyresonant now, at a time of rising authoritarianism across the globe. New York Times, pick of the monthAbout the AuthorYoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in theNew Yorker,A Public Space andZoetrope. Her works includeThe Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas,The Housekeeper and the Professor,Hotel Iris andRevenge. Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 - 2024 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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