Decorated Japanese novelist Yoko Ogawa’s latest work translated to English is a haunting dystopia about a nameless society where objects disappear (perfume, roses, food) and memories are erased, all enforced by a terrifying police force. Narrated by a novelist who tries to take a stand by protecting a man who retains his memories, The Memory Police, though first published in Japanese in 1994, is eerily prescient in the era of big data, dissipating privacy and the surveillance state.
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