Yoko Ogawa Translated Stephen Snyder (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition with bright & shiny wraps; has French flaps; not price clipped. Shows only a ghost of shelf & edge wear. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings to note.180 numbered pages followed by a section of Questions for Discussion.* From the front flap, "He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. . She is an astute young Housekeeper.".

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. Sixth impression of the first UK paperback edition, with '7 9 10 8 6' on the printer's page. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. The book was first published in English translation in hardcover in the USA in 2019 by Pantheon Books, NY, in the UK the same year by Harvill Secker, and originally in Japan in 1994 as "Hisoyaka" by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo. ***Near fine in nicely designed illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked. No tears or creases. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No internal tears or creases, and the paper is still white. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***198 mm x 128 mm. 274 pages. ***"This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever.' - Guardian, Books of the Year [Review quote taken from the back cover] ***'"The Memory Police" is a 1994 science fiction novel by Y?ko Ogawa. 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. "The Memory Police" was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, as well as for the 2020 International Booker Prize. It was also named a finalist for the 2020 World Fantasy Award. In an article naming it one of the best books of the Summer of 2019, Time wrote, "Ogawa's fable echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own." The Chicago Tribune called it: "A masterful work of speculative fiction [.] An unforgettable literary thriller full of atmospheric horror." The New York Times compared it to the novels of Samuel Beckett and Kobo Abe, saying "Ogawa's ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world's ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend." [Wiki] ***A later sixth printing of the first UK paperback edition, in very nice condition. A good reading copy to have. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with '1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' on the printer's page. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. The book was first published in English translation in the USA in 2019 by Pantheon Books, NY, and originally in Japan in 1994 as "Hisoyaka" by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The titles are still nice and bright. Boards clean and unmarked. No bumps or creases. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. No tears or creases, and the paper is still white. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a near fine strikingly illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £12.99. The dustwrapper is complete with no chips or tears. The top of the spine of the dustwrapper is just slightly creased. No fading, even to the red colour to the spine. Dustwrapper bright. ***224 mm x 147 mm. 274 pages plus a one-page note About the Author at the back of the book. ***"The Memory Police" is a beautiful, haunting and provocative dystopia about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from one of Japan's greatest writers.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***'"The Memory Police" is a 1994 science fiction novel by Y?ko Ogawa. 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. "The Memory Police" was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, as well as for the 2020 International Booker Prize. It was also named a finalist for the 2020 World Fantasy Award. In an article naming it one of the best books of the Summer of 2019, Time wrote, "Ogawa's fable echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own." The Chicago Tribune called it: "A masterful work of speculative fiction [.] An unforgettable literary thriller full of atmospheric horror." The New York Times compared it to the novels of Samuel Beckett and Kobo Abe, saying "Ogawa's ruminant style captures the alienation of being alive as the world's ecosystems, ice sheets, languages, animal species and possible futures vanish more quickly than any one mind can apprehend." [Wiki] ***A true first printing of the first UK edition, in its original dustwrapper, in beautiful collectable condition. Even reprints of this award-winning novel seem to be quite elusive, and first impressions are very hard to track down now. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.