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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- Narrateur(s): Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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Description
2019 National Book Award Finalist
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize and the 2020 Translated Book Award
New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.
When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.
A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"An elegantly spare dystopian fable.... Reading The Memory Police is like sinking into a snowdrift: lulling yet suspenseful, it tingles with dread and incipient numbness.... Ogawa’s ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world’s ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend." (The New York Times Book Review)
"The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no promises. It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision.... [It] reaches English-language readers as if sent from the future." (The Guardian)
"A masterful work of speculative fiction.... An unforgettable literary thriller full of atmospheric horror." (Chicago Tribune)
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Sandi
- 2020-03-19
Dystopian? Possibly
The Memory Police
This is a many layered tale but only two of the layers are obvious. While it sounds like science fiction sometimes to me it reads more like a gentle reminder of the reality of having some form of dementia. I'm very familiar with this as I just lost my Mom and she had dementia with Lewy Bodies. She died from something unrelated but after caregiving her for over five years this book hit me like a brick.
The writing is very cuturally Japanese and I love it's slow flow and simplicity. It's one of the reasons I'm a real fan of Japanese literature. Putting a dystopian twist on this for me is genius and even if it wasn't the intent of the author to be a story with a layer about truly forgetting it still resonated with me. The slow but yet more frequent disappearances of objects are unsettling and the progression of what you suspect is coming is artfully done.
Yoko Ogawa is wonderful and I hope she has a lot more stories because I want to read or listen to them all even if they make me cry. The narrator was perfect. Never letting the more unsettling parts make her reading more histrionic she kept with her more nuanced performance. This may well become a new favourite for me.
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Denise Phipps
- 2022-11-14
The ending was disappointing
Not worth reading all the way through. There was so much potential for the book, it just ended abruptly and feels unfinished
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2022-08-04
mysterious
I found the book a bit difficult to understand for someone who is starting to read books for leisurely reading! I'll have to try listening to it again in a couple years to extract meanings that the author intended.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- Ryan Chowdhry
- 2021-10-24
Interesting narrative, but unresolved
No my favourite book by this author, but still enjoyable. I felt as though some parts of the book were unresolved, but perhaps that was the author’s intention. Overall, the performance brought me into this world, and that’s all I can really ask for.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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- Brent
- 2020-11-12
great story, meh narration
This book was great. Very well regarded and a good story. However, I did find the narration to be lacking due to the monotone of her voice.
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- Booky Nooky
- 2019-12-13
A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa is presented as a typical dystopian novel. The book jacket uses works like "Orwellian" and "terrors of state surveillance" but what unfolds over the story is very different than expected.
On an unnamed island objects are systematically disappearing. People wake up to realize that photographs, hats, roses, or birds have disappeared. Not only are the objects physically disappeared through disposal but the objects fade from memory, becoming erased from history. But not for everyone: some people posses the power to recall lost objects. These people are hunted by the Memory Police, whose job it is to ensure the disappeared objects remain forgotten. The story follows an unnamed young novelist who helps hide her editor from capture by the Memory Police.
Sounds like a pretty exciting and tense story, huh? NOPE. The story is calm and quiet in a way that I have not experienced with other dystopian novels. And that's not a bad thing! The best way I can describe THE MEMORY POLICE is a poetic meditation on loss. The inhabitants of the island have an unquestioning acceptance and are rarely fearful, even as their world is vanishing. As objects disappear, life simple adapts and moves on. It's beautiful, unsettling, and totally original in concept but not necessarily the most entertaining book. Though the story was somewhat unsatisfying, not provide answers to any questions, it was through-provoking and an overall oddball book that I enjoyed reading.
If THE MEMORY POLICE were written by an American author (or worse made into an American movie) the story would be about fighting back against a fascist, totalitarian government and likely Scarlett Johansson would be cast as the lead and she would be badass! But that wouldn't be special and would totally ruin the beauty of this book!
Hats off to Okawa (and Stephen Snyder for his beautiful translation) for this totally unique, totally memorable novel!
*** Pantheon Books provided the book for honest review
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- David
- 2020-02-11
Haunting and Beautiful
Ogawa's at her best in this title. The Memory Police is unsettling, disturbing, and reinforces the power of memory as a personal tool. As one of my relatives is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this book struck close to home, knowing there was something that was once part of the world and isn't anymore is truly a powerful realization. The ending, when it came was both expected and executed well. For fans of Ogawa, this is a must listen.
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Au global1 out of 5 stars
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- ALT
- 2020-02-22
Not worth it
Being a fan of dystopian fiction, I had high hopes for this title, but I did not enjoy it at all. While the performance was fine, the story itself was uninspired, predictable, and far too slow for my liking. If you've never read an Atwood or a Huxley and are fine with overdone similes, etc., this might be worth your time. If you, like me, prefer your audiobooks to be suspenseful and fast-paced, with streamlined language, choose something else.
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- psiegler
- 2021-09-08
Stunning
This story was thought provoking and beautifully written. A must read for anyone looking for a gentle yet inquisitive read.
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- Pat
- 2019-09-21
thoughtful
it is a thought provoking story to me, about keeping what is most important to us. and about questioning our view of the world. it seems to ask how do we hold our thoughts and our expressions as items of value. and freedom. what will we pay to be free to express ourselves? so we value our self expression? can someone take our expressions away from us?
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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- Gerry Levine
- 2019-08-28
Strange, atmospheric and deeply troubling
What if dementia was inflicted upon us through an autocratic order manipulating society using neurosciences. What if all we knew and valued in our world was gradually stolen from our memories so it no longer existed for us. WhT would we be?
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- Daarla
- 2022-12-19
Tedious
Like underbaked bread—chewy, unpleasant, insufficiently proved. No depth to protagonists or antagonists. Initially drew me in and then I wanted to gtfo
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- SWarren
- 2019-09-09
Interesting concept but lost me after awhile
I struggled with this story. Had some interesting points but overall definitely not my favorite.
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- Ruth A Faulls
- 2020-10-23
Seven hours I can’t get back.
Such a promising beginning; however, I kept waiting to tie the pieces together and instead the story took a nose-dive. I wish the memory police could erase this book.
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- Robert
- 2019-09-06
Listener beware!
There may be some deep meaning hidden in this book but I never found it, so think carefully before starting it.
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