On an unnamed island, the past is vanishing—piece by piece.
First, it was hats. Then ribbons. Birds. Roses. No one remembers these things ever existed—except for a few who still do, and the Memory Police will stop at nothing to silence them.
For a young writer, the disappearances are disturbing, but when she learns her editor is among those who can still remember, she risks everything to hide him beneath her floorboards. Together, they fight to preserve what the world demands they forget, clinging to memory and words as resistance.
The Memory Police is a chilling, lyrical dystopian novel about state surveillance, erasure, and the quiet rebellion of art. A finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award, it’s a haunting masterpiece of loss, identity, and quiet defiance.
