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In Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police, the protagonist, an unnamed novelist, lives on an island where objects and their associated memories disappear under the control of an authoritarian force called the Memory Police. With her editor, R, who can remember the disappeared items, she constructs a secret hideaway for him. As they grapple with the loss of objects, an endless winter, and the erasure of body parts, the protagonist tries to complete her manuscript while hiding from the Memory Police.