A review by allymute
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

5.0

I think the criticisms of this book's slow and subtle progression are what make it spectacular. This is an introspective allegory, and both Ogawa and Stephen Snyder have done wonderful work. Some readers are not taking into context that this novel was originally published in Japan in 1994, and its environment is not written in the context of U.S./globally Western science fiction. While the allegory is accessible to all of its readers, there's a balance of remembering a novel's publishing provenance.