- International Booker Prize 2020 · Shortlist · for the translation by Stephen Snyder
- National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019 · Finalist · for the translation by Stephen Snyder
The Memory Police
密やかな結晶 · Hisoyaka na kesshō
Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子, born 1962)
Translated by Stephen Snyder
English editions
In EnglishThe Memory Police
Vintage · United States · 28 July 2020 · Paperback · 288 pages
The Memory Police
Harvill Secker · United Kingdom · 2019
The Memory Police
Pantheon Books · United States · 2019
The Memory Police
Vintage · United Kingdom · 6 August 2020 · 288 pages
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On an island where things vanish one by one, birds, perfume, soda pop, and people's hearts thin out with each loss, a novelist keeps writing while 'memory hunts' carry on the disappearances.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 411 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 1994 by Kodansha
- Author's age
- 32 when first published
- ISBN
9784062058438 (original)
9781846559495 (Harvill Secker, United Kingdom)
9781101870600 (Pantheon Books, United States)
9781101911815 (Vintage, United States)
9781784700447 (Vintage, United Kingdom)
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