📖 Book Review: This is a book that focuses on 'What happened' rather than 'Why it happened' or 'How it happened'. A dystopian world where things steadily disappear and the memories attached to it. Majority of the people are affected, but some are able to preserve the existence of those things. The narrator is a novelist, whose mother is one of those immune to the 'Disappearance effect'. And there is where the Memory Police comes in action. These armed Memory Police are tasked to eradicate these kind of people. And one day, the narrator's mother is arrested and is pronounced dead a couple of weeks later. The whole thing screams totalitarianism. There is a scene in the book where a thing disappears and that particular thing is close, if not essential, to the narrator's identity that I find horrifying. The book never really depicts the political aspect of it, but it's there. It's almost like a shadow where the light is coming directly in front of you, you can't see it. But you know it's there. The main storyline follows the narrator when she finds out that her editor is just like her mother. She feels like helping him and that she did. From there, the story progresses to the struggle of hiding him coupled with the steadily disappearances of things. Such a beautiful translation, beautiful book. Atmospheric. Character-driven. I, especially, love how it captures memory in its rawest form. Solid read. #YokoOgawa #TheMemoryPolice #WIT #bookdragon #bookrecommendation #bookreview #bookstagram #bookworm #pinoyreads #booktography #ILoveReading #Books #aethetic #Frame https://www.instagram.com/p/B969RK-pAzd/?igshid=3ta78c7rysk8
