.png) First edition cover (Kodansha, 1994) | |
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Traci Kato-Kiriyama |
| Original title | 密やかな結晶 (Hisoyaka na Kesshō) |
| Translator | Stephen Snyder |
| Cover artist | Michiaki Mochizuki[1] |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Kodansha |
Publication date | 26 January 1994[1] |
| Publication place | Japan |
Published in English | 13 August 2019 (Pantheon) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 411 (Kodansha)[2] 288 (Pantheon) |
| ISBN | 978-4-06-205843-8 |
| 895.63/5 | |
| LC Class | PL858.G37 H5713 2019 |
The Memory Police (Japanese: 密やかな結晶, Hepburn: Hisoyaka na Kesshō, "Secret Crystallization" or "Quiet Crystallization")[3] is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yōko Ogawa.[4] The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka, takes place on an island with a setting reminiscent of that in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. An English translation by Stephen Snyder was published by Pantheon Books and Harvill Secker in 2019. There is currently a film adaptation in the works starring Lily Gladstone with Reed Morano slated as director and Charlie Kaufman as screenwriter.
- ^ a b "『密やかな結晶』（小川 洋子，望月 通陽）". Kodansha Book Club. Kodansha.
- ^ "密やかな結晶/小川洋子". E-hon.ne.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Yoko Ogawa's The Memory Police and the Dangers of Forgetting – Michigan Quarterly Review". sites.lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ Rubin, Peter (20 August 2019). "WIRED Book of the Month: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa". Wired.