Closed in the hidden room, I continued to disappear.
About the Author
Yoko Ogawa’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Granta, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. She lives in Tokyo.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Translation copyright © 2019 by Yoko Ogawa
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in Japan as Hisoyaka na kesshō by Kodansha, Ltd., Tokyo, in 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Yoko Ogawa.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ogawa, Yoko, [date] author. Snyder, Stephen, [date] translator.
Title: The memory police / Yoko Ogawa ; translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder.
Other titles: Hisoyaka na kesshåo. English
Description: New York : Pantheon Books, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057224. ISBN 9781101870600 (hardcover : alk. paper). ISBN 9781101870617 (ebook). ISBN 9780375715334 (open market).
Subjects: LCSH: Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. Memory—Fiction. Novelists—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PL858.G37 H5713 2019 | DDC 895.63/5—dc23 | LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2018057224
Ebook ISBN 9781101870617
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