Her parents, a sculptor and an ornithologist, are both dead. The narrator, a novelist living in a village on the island, doesn't-nor does her closest confidant, an old man who was a friend of her family.
The world The Memory Police re-emerges into demands an entirely new reading, one where information isn’t distorted. Handy political parallels are just the beginning of its charms, though the book’s most urgent allegory has little to do with propaganda. The book's central conceit-an island where concepts intermittently disappear from society's collective understanding-has proved irresistible to American critics, who hail the novel's relevance in a time of pervasive doublespeak and gaslighting. Last week, 25 years after its original publication, The Memory Police was released in English.
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