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Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A youn
Brought to you by Penguin.Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.__________Hat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care o
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writerTo read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian Murderers an
Three strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws
"The Memory Police" af Yoko Ogawa er en poetisk og hjemsøgende roman om en dystopisk ø, hvor minderne forsvinder. Hatte, fugle, roser. For folket på øen har de forsvundne ting ikke længere nogen mening. Snart vil øen glemme, at den selv eksister
Finalist for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor . On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: fi
From the award-winning author of The Memory Police and The Housekeeper and the Professor , a hypnotic novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them. "A story of first enchantments and
His memory lasts eighty minutes. The bond they form lasts far longer. He is a brilliant maths 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 Houseke
Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumati
"Each tale here seems to be its own torture chamber--dark and meticulous . . . More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must necessarily transform into the portal for another.&q
"[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender." --Daniel Hahn, The Independent From the award-winning author of Mina's Matchbox and The Memory Poli
Yoko Ogawas "De tabte minders ø" er en poetisk og dystopisk fortælling om en ø, hvor ting og minderne om dem forsvinder på mystisk vis. Helt ude på en isoleret ø begynder fugle, roser, parfume og andre genstande at forsvinde en for en. Samtidig