The Memory Police

"The Memory Police" af Yoko Ogawa er en poetisk og hjemsøgende roman om en dystopisk ø, hvor minderne forsvinder. Hatte, fugle, roser. For folket på øen har de forsvundne ting ikke længere nogen mening. Snart vil øen glemme, at den selv eksisterer. Da en ung forfatter opdager, at hendes redaktør er i fare for at blive taget af det mystiske Hukommelsespoliti, bliver hun desperat for at redde ham. For af en eller anden årsag glemmer han ikke. Men det bliver sværere og sværere for ham at skjule sine minder, og pludselig befinder deres fortællinger sig i gevaldig fare for at forsvinde for evigt. Yoko Ogawas "The Memory Police" er en opslugende og ildevarslende fortælling om mindernes enorme kræfter og en subtil kritik af modernitetens stigende overvågning af individet.

"The Memory Police" af Yoko Ogawa er en poetisk og hjemsøgende roman om en dystopisk ø, hvor minderne forsvinder. Hatte, fugle, roser. For folket på øen har de forsvundne ting ikke længere nogen mening. Snart vil øen glemme, at den selv eksisterer. Da en ung forfatter opdager, at hendes redaktør er i fare for at blive taget af det mystiske Hukommelsespoliti, bliver hun desperat for at redde ham. For af en eller anden årsag glemmer han ikke. Men det bliver sværere og sværere for ham at skjule sine minder, og pludselig befinder deres fortællinger sig i gevaldig fare for at forsvinde for evigt. Yoko Ogawas "The Memory Police" er en opslugende og ildevarslende fortælling om mindernes enorme kræfter og en subtil kritik af modernitetens stigende overvågning af individet.

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. . . . 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 f loorboards, 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

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. . . . 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 f loorboards, 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