The narrator, with the help of her friend, set up a secret room for R and decides to offer him a refuge away from the eyes of the Memory Police. She finds out that her editor, R, is one such person who remembered things that disappeared, just like her own mother used to remember and had tried to pass on these memories to her as a child. The narrator of The Memory Police is tasked with this objective. But not everyone forgets as we discover, some remember, due to unexplained reasons, and they are taken to be studied, analysed and their information is stored in databases. The Memory Police are tasked with the objective to enforce compliance of removal of these objects and their memories and leave no stone unturned to destroy, abandon and erase the existence of things and their memories that are supposed to disappear. Things disappear and so do the memories, feelings and experiences associated with the things. The Memory Police, is set in an unnamed island and narrated by an unnamed writer. To what extent would you go to preserve those objects, memories and by extension the ones we love.Īlso read: Book Review – Regretting Motherhood: A Study By Orna Donath What would you do when not only are you failed by your memories of those objects, but also policed to shed any associated feelings, incidences and perceptions of those very objects? These could be hats, books, roses or candies.
This work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020, and the translation by Snyder was nothing short of pitch perfect and deserving of the prize. Yoko Ogawa pondered on these very haunting questions in her book, The Memory Police, which was released in 1994 but the English translation by Stephen Snyder released last year. Now read this dystopian scenario wherein these very items, objects are disappearing without warning. Imagine there is a fire, you try to save the most important and cherished items.
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