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Yōko Ogawa is an award-winning Japanese novelist whose quietly powerful fiction explores memory, loss and human relationships. She has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and The Memory Police.
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On an unnamed island, everyday objects mysteriously disappear and most residents gradually forget they ever existed. When a novelist discovers that her editor still remembers the missing objects and is being pursued by the Memory Police, she hides him and tries to preserve the past through her writing.