The Memory Police -- Yoko Ogawa, Paperback Mase the God-fearing image he's worked

the God-fearing image he's worked so hard to cultivate is under threat

She lives in upper Manhattan with her husband and twin boys

Glenn Corbett

only to fall prey to the Myposian way of life

sent to an African diamond mine to complete an equipment installation

The Memory Police -- Yoko Ogawa, Paperback Mase the God-fearing image he's workedFinalist 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