The Memory Police: A Novel
Kindle Edition
- Themes
- State surveillance, Memory and forgetting, Trauma of loss
Who it’s for
- For readers interested in dystopian stories about state surveillance.
- For readers drawn to stories about memory, loss, and preserving the past.
Where it sits
How strongly BookFrontier reads the book as belonging to each subject.
Nearest books
Closest matches from our semantic model, which compares what books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved.
Klara and the Sun: a GMA Book Club PickKazuo Ishiguro53% matchShares Literary Fiction
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldHaruki Murakami57% matchShares Japanese Fiction
The City and Its Uncertain WallsHaruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel63% matchShares Japanese Fiction
Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro57% matchShares Dystopian and Literary Fiction
WeYevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich58% matchShares Dystopian
The God of the WoodsLiz Moore54% matchShares Literary Fiction
Under the Eye of the Big BirdHiromi Kawakami61% matchShares Dystopian
For younger readers: Anna and the Swallow Man, The Crossing, Love Is the Drug
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Join the waitlistAbout this book
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. . . .
Continue reading
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 floorboards, 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 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. CLUB * KIRKUS REVIEWS * LITERARY HUB American Book Award winner Read more
Publisher details
- Authors
- Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, Yōko Ogawa
- Format
- Ebook