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Yoko Ogawa: The Memory Police (Paperback, 2020, Penguin Random House)

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance.

On an unnamed island off …

Ethereal and conflicting.

I'm uncertain how it is that I feel about this book. I don't even know that I can call it enjoyable, though it is incredibly dream-like. There is so much care between the characters, but it also is hard to really enjoy.

It's impossible to really discuss it without spoiling all of it, and I don't particularly feel like writing more. But I can say that the book left me feeling somewhat empty, which I think is honestly the point considering the story itself (an island where things 'disappear', where people who remember are arrested by the Memory Police).