Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space and Zoetrope . Her works include The Diving Pool , The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police , was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space and Zoetrope . Her works include The Diving Pool , The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police , was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. See less
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Yoko Ogawa book reviews
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The Memory Police
Hauntingly Beautiful
There have always been disappearances on the island, objects come and go, people disappear, concepts vanish in a single night. But when this process starts to speed up - what else do the Memory ... Read More
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
Mathematics, Imagination, And Memory
Yoko Ogawa's "The Housekeeper and the Professor" (2007) is a short, peaceful novel that combines broad themes of reason and poetry with an exploration of the intimacy of family. Set in contemporary ... Read More
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
it all adds up
by aj123, Apr 10, 2014
a beautifully written book. simple & majestic, reads quickly, lasts forever Read More
