Description
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa is a haunting and thought-provoking novel set on an island where objects and memories mysteriously vanish, and the authorities ensure everyone forgets what disappears. The story follows a young novelist as she struggles to preserve her memories and identity in a society slowly erasing the past. As people around her succumb to the enforced forgetting, she secretly safeguards remnants of the vanished world. The novel explores themes of memory, loss, authoritarian control, and the resilience of the human spirit. Ogawa’s delicate and precise prose captures both the melancholy and quiet resistance of life under such oppression. This mesmerizing tale raises profound questions about what it means to remember, to forget, and to survive.
- pages: 344
- Genre: Dystopian Fiction / Speculative Fiction
- Book Cover Type: Paperback
- Language(s): Persian
- ISBN: 9786003841543
- Persian Title: کتاب پلیس حافظه