Anna Aslanyan

Out of sight, out of mind | 8 August 2019

It’s not only physical objects that keep disappearing, but people and memories, in this eerie Japanese novel suggestive of Nineteen Eighty-Four

issue 10 August 2019

  • The Memory Police

    Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder

    Harvill Secker, pp. 274

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