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Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder: The Memory Police (Hardcover, 2019, Pantheon Books)

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of

Review of 'The Memory Police' on 'Storygraph'

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This is the most Orwellian book I’ve read in a while. It is an Animal Farm for our era. I would love to see this read in every classroom so that people are thinking about what it means when we are asked to pretend that something doesn’t exist; to forget uncomfortable truths; to consign certain books to the fire. This is a book that should be read by everyone.