YokoOgawa, a lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A y
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prosti
Who knows what will vanish next?The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'One of Japan
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing:
Who knows what will vanish next?The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers. 'One of Japan
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE**'A masterpiece' GuardianDiscover a timely mystery about the loss of every day existence by one of Japan's greatest writers that featured in the E
From Akutagawa award-winning author YokoOgawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent
Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from YokoOgawa.An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdere
A deft and dark Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappeari
A tale of twisted love, from the author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the ProfessorIn a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front
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, with a te