The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa
The Memory Police
by Yōko Ogawa · first published 2020
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses—until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power 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 woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fea
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…#1-3 in Naomi No it's Scholomance series * Babel, R.F. Kiang * The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd * Books #1-3 in Olivie Blake's Atlas series * Books #1-3 in Sylvain Neuval's Themis Files series * The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa * Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno Garcia and the list keeps going. I haven't read this avidly since high school (20 years ago). The recommendations coming out of BookTok are unabashedly…
on “TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold” ↗…Earthlings by Murata The Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and Kafka By The Shore by Murakami Snow Country by Kawabata Strange Weather in Tokyo by Kawakami No Longer Human by Nazai I am a Cat by Netsuke The Memory Police by Ogawa
on “Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming” ↗I will need to retroactively edit the memories of a bunch of 40 and 50-somethings... Where are the Memory Police when you need 'em? (Good book, btw)
on “Facebook suspended my account without warning because I mentioned a placename” ↗Are you me?????? I read these exact three in the past six weeks. For a follow-up, I recommend "Earthlings" and "The Memory Police".
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗"The Memory Police", by Yoko Ogawa [1]. An island where things get disappeared by the Memory Police - physically from the world and from people's minds. A few people are immune to forgetting, so the Memory Police is on…
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗Wow! Nice coincidence. I've read "The Memory Police". I will add "Earthlings" to my queue. Thanks for the recommendation
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗