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Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, 小川洋子: The Memory Police (Paperback, 2020, Vintage) 4 stars

**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, …

Melancholy dystopia

5 stars

Skillfully melds the fear of living in an oppressive dystopia with the melancholy of the loss of memories and, first, the objects they're tied to. Tends towards feeling pretty dark, leavened only by the obvious love between the main characters.