Five More to Go: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police [in The Booklist Reader]
13 Aug, by Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Korean American, Lists, Repost, Translation
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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa and translated by Stephen Snyder Without names, these people, this island, could be anyone, anywhere. As fantastical as the premise of her latest anglophoned novel seems, Yoko Ogawa (The Housekeeper and the Professor, 2009) intends exactly that universality. Initially, small things disappeared...