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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 draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative,
The Memory Police
is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
*
THE WASHINGTON POST
TIME
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
* T
HE GUARDIAN
ESQUIRE
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
FINANCIAL TIMES
LIBRARY JOURNAL
* THE A.V. CLUB *
KIRKUS REVIEWS
LITERARY HUB
American Book Award winner
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 committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative,
The Memory Police
is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
*
THE WASHINGTON POST
TIME
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
* T
HE GUARDIAN
ESQUIRE
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
FINANCIAL TIMES
LIBRARY JOURNAL
* THE A.V. CLUB *
KIRKUS REVIEWS
LITERARY HUB
American Book Award winner
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 draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative,
The Memory Police
is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
*
THE WASHINGTON POST
TIME
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
* T
HE GUARDIAN
ESQUIRE
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
FINANCIAL TIMES
LIBRARY JOURNAL
* THE A.V. CLUB *
KIRKUS REVIEWS
LITERARY HUB
American Book Award winner
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 committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her f loorboards, and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative,
The Memory Police
is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss.
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
*
THE WASHINGTON POST
TIME
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
* T
HE GUARDIAN
ESQUIRE
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
FINANCIAL TIMES
LIBRARY JOURNAL
* THE A.V. CLUB *
KIRKUS REVIEWS
LITERARY HUB
American Book Award winner
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