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Revenge
- Eleven Dark Tales
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa
- ナレーター: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
- 再生時間: 4 時間 24 分
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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The Remains of the Day
- 著者: Kazuo Ishiguro
- ナレーター: Nicholas Guy Smith
- 再生時間: 9 時間 23 分
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This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman", Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness", and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/05/07
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa
- ナレーター: Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 5 時間 55 分
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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
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- 投稿者: KH 日付: 2019/01/20
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The Emissary
- 著者: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- ナレーター: Julian Cihi
- 再生時間: 4 時間 8 分
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Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.
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Housekeeping
- 著者: Marilynne Robinson
- ナレーター: Becket Royce
- 再生時間: 5 時間 32 分
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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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Pachinko
- 著者: Min Jin Lee
- ナレーター: Allison Hiroto
- 再生時間: 18 時間 16 分
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Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life.
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It is an amazing book!
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2019/04/19
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Revenge
- Eleven Dark Tales
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa
- ナレーター: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
- 再生時間: 4 時間 24 分
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An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor - who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
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The Remains of the Day
- 著者: Kazuo Ishiguro
- ナレーター: Nicholas Guy Smith
- 再生時間: 9 時間 23 分
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This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman", Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness", and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
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- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2020/05/07
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
- 著者: Yoko Ogawa
- ナレーター: Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 5 時間 55 分
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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.
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- 投稿者: KH 日付: 2019/01/20
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The Emissary
- 著者: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- ナレーター: Julian Cihi
- 再生時間: 4 時間 8 分
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Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.
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Housekeeping
- 著者: Marilynne Robinson
- ナレーター: Becket Royce
- 再生時間: 5 時間 32 分
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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far West town of Fingerbone, set on a glacial lake, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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Pachinko
- 著者: Min Jin Lee
- ナレーター: Allison Hiroto
- 再生時間: 18 時間 16 分
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Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them. Betrayed by her wealthy lover, Sunja finds unexpected salvation when a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and bring her to Japan to start a new life.
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It is an amazing book!
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2019/04/19
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JR上野駅公園口
- 著者: 柳 美里
- ナレーター: 江尻 拓巳
- 再生時間: 5 時間 10 分
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一九三三年、私は「天皇」と同じ日に生まれた――東京オリンピックの前年、出稼ぎのため上野駅に降り立った男の壮絶な生涯を通じ描かれる、日本の光と闇……居場所を失くしたすべての人へ贈る物語。
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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- 著者: Colson Whitehead
- ナレーター: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- 再生時間: 6 時間 46 分
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When Elwood Curtis, a bBlack boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. As life at the Academy becomes ever more perilous, the tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision.
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Men Without Women
- Stories
- 著者: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator, Ted Goossen - translator
- ナレーター: Kirby Heyborne
- 再生時間: 7 時間 18 分
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Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. Marked by the same wry humor that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Breasts and Eggs
- 著者: Mieko Kawakami
- ナレーター: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
- 再生時間: 15 時間 22 分
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On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter, Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast-enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother’s self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsu’s rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties.
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Becoming
- 著者: Michelle Obama
- ナレーター: Michelle Obama
- 再生時間: 19 時間 3 分
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In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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語り口からにじみ出る、手本とすべき人柄。
- 投稿者: Kindleのお客様 日付: 2019/02/07
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Normal People
- A Novel
- 著者: Sally Rooney
- ナレーター: Aoife McMahon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 34 分
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Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another.
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- 著者: James Clear
- ナレーター: James Clear
- 再生時間: 5 時間 35 分
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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Important thing
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2021/01/30
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Beloved
- 著者: Toni Morrison
- ナレーター: Toni Morrison
- 再生時間: 12 時間 3 分
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but 18 years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
- 著者: Elif Shafak
- ナレーター: Alix Dunmore
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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Our brains stay active for 10 minutes after our heart stops beating. For Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory: growing up with her father and his wives in a grand old house in a quiet Turkish town; watching the women gossip and wax their legs while the men went to mosque; sneaking cigarettes and Western magazines on her way home from school; running away to Istanbul to escape an unwelcome marriage; falling in love with a student who seeks shelter from a riot in the brothel where she works.
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Caste
- The Lies That Divide Us
- 著者: Isabel Wilkerson
- ナレーター: Robin Miles
- 再生時間: 14 時間 26 分
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Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today. With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste.
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My Own Words
- 著者: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- ナレーター: Linda Lavin
- 再生時間: 13 時間 16 分
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The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993 - a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture. My Own Words is a selection of writings and speeches by Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being Jewish, law and lawyers in opera, and more.
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"An elegantly spare dystopian fable.... Reading The Memory Police is like sinking into a snowdrift: lulling yet suspenseful, it tingles with dread and incipient numbness.... Ogawa’s ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world’s ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend." (The New York Times Book Review)
"The Memory Police is a masterpiece: a deep pool that can be experienced as fable or allegory, warning and illumination. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are fleeting. It is political and human, it makes no promises. It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision.... [It] reaches English-language readers as if sent from the future." (The Guardian)
"A masterful work of speculative fiction.... An unforgettable literary thriller full of atmospheric horror." (Chicago Tribune)
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2019 National Book Award Finalist
Longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize and the 2020 Translated Book Award
New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten.
When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards. As fear and loss close in around them, they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past.
A surreal, provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, The Memory Police is a stunning new work from one of the most exciting contemporary authors writing in any language.
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- Booky Nooky
- 2019/12/13
A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa is presented as a typical dystopian novel. The book jacket uses works like "Orwellian" and "terrors of state surveillance" but what unfolds over the story is very different than expected.
On an unnamed island objects are systematically disappearing. People wake up to realize that photographs, hats, roses, or birds have disappeared. Not only are the objects physically disappeared through disposal but the objects fade from memory, becoming erased from history. But not for everyone: some people posses the power to recall lost objects. These people are hunted by the Memory Police, whose job it is to ensure the disappeared objects remain forgotten. The story follows an unnamed young novelist who helps hide her editor from capture by the Memory Police.
Sounds like a pretty exciting and tense story, huh? NOPE. The story is calm and quiet in a way that I have not experienced with other dystopian novels. And that's not a bad thing! The best way I can describe THE MEMORY POLICE is a poetic meditation on loss. The inhabitants of the island have an unquestioning acceptance and are rarely fearful, even as their world is vanishing. As objects disappear, life simple adapts and moves on. It's beautiful, unsettling, and totally original in concept but not necessarily the most entertaining book. Though the story was somewhat unsatisfying, not provide answers to any questions, it was through-provoking and an overall oddball book that I enjoyed reading.
If THE MEMORY POLICE were written by an American author (or worse made into an American movie) the story would be about fighting back against a fascist, totalitarian government and likely Scarlett Johansson would be cast as the lead and she would be badass! But that wouldn't be special and would totally ruin the beauty of this book!
Hats off to Okawa (and Stephen Snyder for his beautiful translation) for this totally unique, totally memorable novel!
*** Pantheon Books provided the book for honest review
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- ALT
- 2020/02/22
Not worth it
Being a fan of dystopian fiction, I had high hopes for this title, but I did not enjoy it at all. While the performance was fine, the story itself was uninspired, predictable, and far too slow for my liking. If you've never read an Atwood or a Huxley and are fine with overdone similes, etc., this might be worth your time. If you, like me, prefer your audiobooks to be suspenseful and fast-paced, with streamlined language, choose something else.
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- David
- 2020/02/11
Haunting and Beautiful
Ogawa's at her best in this title. The Memory Police is unsettling, disturbing, and reinforces the power of memory as a personal tool. As one of my relatives is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, this book struck close to home, knowing there was something that was once part of the world and isn't anymore is truly a powerful realization. The ending, when it came was both expected and executed well. For fans of Ogawa, this is a must listen.
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- Ruth A Faulls
- 2020/10/23
Seven hours I can’t get back.
Such a promising beginning; however, I kept waiting to tie the pieces together and instead the story took a nose-dive. I wish the memory police could erase this book.
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- Pat
- 2019/09/21
thoughtful
it is a thought provoking story to me, about keeping what is most important to us. and about questioning our view of the world. it seems to ask how do we hold our thoughts and our expressions as items of value. and freedom. what will we pay to be free to express ourselves? so we value our self expression? can someone take our expressions away from us?
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- SWarren
- 2019/09/09
Interesting concept but lost me after awhile
I struggled with this story. Had some interesting points but overall definitely not my favorite.
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- Gerry Levine
- 2019/08/28
Strange, atmospheric and deeply troubling
What if dementia was inflicted upon us through an autocratic order manipulating society using neurosciences. What if all we knew and valued in our world was gradually stolen from our memories so it no longer existed for us. WhT would we be?
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- Daan Renssen
- 2021/03/06
Interesting subject - but too farfetched for me
This book was referred to me so I felt I should finish it. The tone of the reader was intentionally monotonous to set the stage but it also made me sleepy if not slightly depressed.
I can understand the many positive reviews given the originality but I didn’t understand some parts and it was hard for me to accept that some unknown force could take away all these things, esp once we got to body parts. Little too farfetched for me, but on a positive note I liked the originality and liked to ponder on some of the concepts.
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- Tim
- 2020/10/13
Borderline to be Science Fiction
A friend of mine sent me this recommendation to read “The Memory Police.” My friend and I share the same style of titles. Many Japanese authors have the same style of writing. Very uneven and not uniform to the conventional authors. In a way, most of them are very disjointed and confusing to follow.
I really enjoyed “The Memory Police.” I thought that it was good. Instead of a mystery or a thriller, I thought that the story was borderline to be science fiction. Now I see why my friend wanted me to read Yoko Ogawa’s work.
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- R. Sedor
- 2020/10/08
Melancholy and thought provoking
I liked so much the tone. The characters move through the novel trying not to live into the dystopian future. I cannot stop thinking about the questions it raised for me.