![]() ![]() ![]() The authoritarian Memory Police oversee this process of loss and elimination. They then proceed to discard all physical traces of the idea that has disappeared-often burning the lifeless ones and releasing the natural ones to the elements. ![]() The small population awakens some mornings with all knowledge of objects as mundane as stamps, valuable as emeralds, omnipresent as birds, or delightful as roses missing from their minds. Renowned Japanese author Ogawa ( Revenge, 2013, etc.) opens her latest novel with what at first sounds like a sinister fairy tale told by a nameless mother to a nameless daughter: “Long ago, before you were born, there were many more things here…transparent things, fragrant things…fluttery ones, bright ones….It’s a shame that the people who live here haven’t been able to hold such marvelous things in their hearts and minds, but that’s just the way it is on this island.” But rather than a twisted bedtime story, this depiction captures the realities of life on the narrator's unnamed island. A novelist tries to adapt to her ever changing reality as her world slowly disappears. ![]()
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