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Memory Police, Yōko Ogawa

Mary Woodbury

August 15, 2019

The book is practically a novelization of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s post-World War II poem “First they came …,” but the environmental effects of the disappearances of things like roses and fruit make Ogawa’s prose feel applicable not just to political atrocities like genocide but to climate change or any other crisis made worse by general complacency.

–AV Club

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses – until things become much more serious.

-Goodreads

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3.7 rating based on 116,915 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0375715339
ISBN-13: 9780375715334
Goodreads: 51159492

Author(s):
Yōko Ogawa
Stephen Snyder
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Published: //

En una pequeña isla se produce un misterioso fenómeno. Un día desaparecen los pájaros, al siguiente podría desaparecer cualquier cosa: los peces, los árboles... Peor aún, también se desvanecerá la memoria de ellos, al igual que las emociones y sensaciones que llevaban asociadas. Nadie sabrá ni recordará entonces qué eran. Hay incluso una policía dedicada a perseguir a los que conservan la capacidad de recordar lo que ya no existe.

En esa isla vive una joven escritora que, tras la muerte de su madre, intenta escribir una novela mientras trata de proteger a su editor, que está en peligro porque forma parte de los pocos que recuerdan. La ayudará un anciano al que empiezan a fallarle las fuerzas. Mientras, lentamente, nuestra protagonista va dando forma a su novela: es el relato de una mecanógrafa cuyo jefe acaba reteniéndola contra su voluntad en un altillo.

Una obra sobre el poder de la memoria y sobre la pérdida.
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