The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa (Author) Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space and Zoetrope . Her works include The Diving Pool , The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police , was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Stephen Snyder (Translator) Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino''s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa''s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?

About the author

Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.

He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino's Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?

Product details

• Authors: Yoko Ogawa, Ogawa Yoko
• Assisted by: Stephen Snyder (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 06.08.2026
• EAN: 9781529988413
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-8841-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 190 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Japan, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Dystopian, Fiction in translation, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Psychological thriller, Dystopian and utopian fiction