The Memory Police
Vintage · first published 1994 · 288 pages
On an island where things vanish one by one, along with people's memories of them, a novelist hides a man who can still remember.
The calm, almost gentle voice makes each disappearance feel both ordinary and quietly terrible.
For a night when the house is very quiet.
About this book
A young novelist lives on an island where objects such as birds, ribbons, and photographs are made to disappear, and the islanders forget them too. A feared force, the Memory Police, hunts those who keep remembering. When she learns her editor is in danger, she prepares a hidden room to shelter him. Told plainly, with passages from the novel she is writing, the book leaves a lingering sense of how much can be lost without anyone noticing.