Yoko Ogawa Collection 2 Books Set The Memory Police & Mina's Matchbox Paperback

Name: Yoko Ogawa Collection 2 Books Set The Memory Police & Mina's Matchbox Paperback
Brand: Yoko Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa

Titles in This Set:. The Memory Police. Mina's Matchbox Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9789124020743 Overview:. Two acclaimed translations by Yōko Ogawa—The Memory Police and Mina's Matchbox—are brought together in this single paperback collection, inviting readers into dual worlds where memory, time, and family ties are tested to the limit. The Memory Police unfolds on a quiet island where objects and memories gradually vanish from everyday life, leaving citizens to cope with the chill of forgetting. A young novelist watches her editor face the threat of capture by an unseen force, racing to preserve what memory remains as the world around them shifts under erasure. In Mina's Matchbox, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live with her uncle in a coastal town during Japan’s transformative 1970s; a grand mansion, secret crushes, and a peculiar pygmy hippo tutor her in longing, storytelling, and resilience. Together, these two stories showcase Ogawa’s lean, precise prose an...