Yōko Ogawa

[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to How to Win the Lottery, season 21, Unadaptable, book number seven, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder.

I'm Joey Lewandowski.

I'm Shreds.

Let's talk about October.

I would say based on length, Do you own Revenge by Yoko Ogawa?

No. I'll either buy it or get it from the library.

Right Ho Jeeves, that's short.

I don't know if you're familiar with this novel.

I have recommended it before, but it's, uh, a novel, uh, from the 1990s by Yoko Ogawa, but it was recently-ish translated into English, and it's a, a really special dystopian novel.

I fully endorse or recommend it to absolutely everyone who's listening.

Uh, but anyway, the, the central premise is that they, the, um, the, the group of individuals that are followed, um, they live on an island where things are gradually disappearing and the enigmatic memory police of the title essentially sort of delete things from history, and we never actually get to find out why.

That is just so perfect.

I have come across people that are like, have you read The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa? I have

not.

I have not.