![]() ![]() The enforcement of the memory erosion is the task for the special Memory Police, that ruthlessly detects and investigates any traces of disappearing objects, as well as hunts people that are still able to remember them. For them, these things simply cease to exist. In this beautiful dystopian book, our young female character works as a writer on one curious island – there, things sometimes simply disappear from time to time, and with those “disappearances” come another interesting element – people soon forget these things completely, how they looked and what they felt like. Yōko Ogawa ( The Housekeeper and the Professor ) wrote The Memory Police in 1994, and it was translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder in 2019. One time when you stop breathing and a second time…when somebody says your name for the last time” (Banksy, re-quoting Ernest Hemingway). ![]()
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