The protagonist of this tale, translated by Stephen Snyder, is a young writer who endures - and endures seems to be too hard a term, she hardly seems to mind - an increasingly stifling world where goods are scarce, the police arrest citizens in the middle of the night and memories are torn from people's minds.
One can even envision a high-paid Hollywood actor starring in the Netflix adaptation: They're coming for your memories, but she's got a plan to stop them!īut this is a Japanese novel - so for anyone looking for thrills, I'd like to warn you that despite the tagline "Orwellian" on the back cover of the book, this reads much more like a surrealist drama. It would be something akin to The Handmaid's Tale, or the movie version of Minority Report. It seems like a metaphor for state surveillance if The Memory Police were an American novel, it might yield a contrarian hero determined to fight off the tyranny of the police. On a small island, objects disappear - perfume, boats, roses, photographs - and the memory police monitor the inhabitants, ensuring these things will be eternally forgotten. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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