Then objects--ribbons, bells, photographs. Ribbon, hat, bird. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa. Viewing “anything that fails to vanish when they say it should [as] inconceivable,” they drop into homes for inspections, seizing objects and rounding up anyone who refuses—or is simply unable—to follow the rules. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 23 Jul 2019. Reviewed by Georgia Brough. The authoritarian Memory Police oversee this process of loss and elimination. • The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder, is published by Harvill Secker (£11.99). Her mother, a sculptor, was murdered by the Memory Police, who regularly round up and disappear the few islanders who still have working memories, and her late father was an ornithologist. It is a novel that makes us see differently, opening up its ideas in inconspicuous ways, knowing that all moments of understanding and grace are … Then, body parts. 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