The Memory Police

Resumen del libro

Finalist 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 draconianMemory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappearedremains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editoris in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, andtogether they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.Powerful and provocative, The Memory Police is a stunning novel aboutthe trauma of loss.

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Biografía del autor

(Okayama, 1962) ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor, que pronto publicaremos en Tusquets Editores. La magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria quedó finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub.