BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMORY POLICE by YOKO OGAWA
In a strange enchanting backdrop, the novel came with such issues which are easy to ignore but hard to discuss! REVIEWED BY BODHISATTYA PAL BOOK: THE MEMORY POLICE AUTHOR: YOKO OGAWA TRANSLATOR: STEPHEN SNYDER PUBLISHER: PANTHEON BOOKS BLURB: GOODREADS GRAVITY: ' National Book Award for Translated Literature 2019' 'International Booker Prize 2020' REVIEW: 👮A mysterious island with its own rules - things are vanishing fast along with the memories linked with it, snow is falling restlessly and they, the Memory Police, are roaming to ensure & enforce the annihilation! Quite a nebulous, eerie and enchanting premise. 🦅The Memory Police is a very strange novel. It keeps changing its mood & motive. It is very hard to specify its genre. The novel is partly dystopian, partly sci-fi, partly political and partly philosophical sometimes. 🖋️Yoko Ogawa started this novel with the disappearances as focal theme. The plot was expanding and