Books by Yoko Ogawa

Who knows what will vanish next?The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'One of Japan's most acclaimed authors explores truth, state surveillance and individual autonomy.

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

På en isoleret ø begynder tingene langsomt at forsvinde. Pludselig en morgen vågner øboerne op til en verden uden fugle, uden roser, uden parfume. De mystiske mindejægere fra det hemmelige politi sørger for, at ikke kun tingene, men også alle minderne om dem, forsvinder.Da en ung forfatter finder ud af, at hendes redaktør er i fare for at blive anholdt af mindejægerne, sætter hun sin egen frihed på spil for at redde ham. Sammen med en gammel ven af familien skaber hun et skjulested i sit hus. Og mens glemslen hærger som en epidemi, og den snedækkede verden udenfor forsvinder for dem, kæmper de sammen mod overmagten for at forsøge at fastholde det forsvundne og afslutte hendes roman.De tabte minders ø er en håbefuld dystopi. En poetisk  og rå roman om mindernes kraft, livets største tab og den kærlighed, som ingen ondskab kan tage fra de elskende - skrevet af den japanske forfatter Yoko Ogawa, som fik sit internationale gennembrud med bogen, da den udkom på engelsk i 2019.  

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, 17-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a long seduction.

A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes.