![]() An unknown force causes the people of the island to collectively 'forget' and lose their attachment to objects or concepts, e.g. The story follows a novelist on an island under the control of the Memory Police. There is currently a film adaptation in the works with Reed Morano slated as director and Charlie Kaufman as screenwriter. An English translation by Stephen Snyder was published by Pantheon Books and Harvill Secker in 2019. ![]() The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka, takes place on an island with a setting reminiscent of that in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. ![]() The Memory Police ( Japanese: 密やかな結晶, Hepburn: Hisoyaka na Kesshō, "Secret Crystallization") is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yōko Ogawa. ![]()
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