Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Memory Police
- Author
- Yōko Ogawa
- Published
- 1994
- Pages
- 274
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Ogawa’s novel of an island where objects — and then the words for them, and then the memory of them — are disappeared on official schedule.
Where I saw it: Recommended in a BookTok video by @thereadingrealm_, saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@thereadingrealm_/video/7461720071719619883
Note on the record: First published in Japanese as Hisoyaka na Kesshō in 1994; Stephen Snyder’s English translation appeared in 2019.
Connections
- Dystopia — the register.
- Censorship — the mechanism, taken to its limit.