The Memory Police

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.

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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

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