The book narrates the dystopian fable of an unnamed island where objects and the its memory thereof disappear. Originally published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into English in the year 2019 the book was named a finalist for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police covers a broad spectrum from totalitarian regime, cultural and individual memories, notion of cognition to the themes such as familial loss, identity and power shifts. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.” “And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it.
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