Sunday, December 27, 2020

Yoko Ogawa - The Memory Police (Harvill Secker, 2019) **


 It sounded interesting when I read the back cover in the book store. It appeared to be interesting in the first chapter. Then I completely lost interest. 

The story takes place in an unknown future, when a dictatorship subjects the people to forgetting what happened in the past. The concept is not bad, but then of course you have to turn this concept into a story that captures the attention and that raises the core message - let's not forget our past - into something more compelling and interesting. 


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