6/11/2023 0 Comments The memory police by yoko ogawa![]() ![]() Written in deceptively simple yet hypnotic prose, there’s a dream-like quality to the text, yet the subject matter is quite nightmarish. ![]() There are echoes of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and it also shares similar themes with Richard Flanagan’s latest novel, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, too.Īnd yet for all that, this is a wholly original dystopian novel like no other.Īs Madeleine Thein writes in her review, published in the Guardian in 2019, it is a “rare work of patient and courageous vision” and one that “can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination”. ![]() The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa is a brilliant mix of The Diary of Anne Frank meets George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Fiction – paperback Vintage 274 pages 2020. ![]()
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