The memory police
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101870600
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Physical Description:
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regular print
274 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kessho by Kodansha, Tokyo, 1994." Translated from the Japanese. International Booker Prize 2020 Shortlist. |
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Subject: | Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction Memory -- Fiction Novelists -- Fiction Social control -- Fiction |
Genre: | Dystopian fiction Japanese fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Gibsons Public Library | SF FIC OGAW (Text) | 30886001071006 | Adult speculative fic hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects--ribbons,bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than her career is in danger, she hides her editor beneath her floorboards, and together, as fear and loss close in around them, they cling to literature as the last way of preserving the past. Part allegory, part literary thriller, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language"-- Provided by publisher.