The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction Germs and Steel

Germs and Steel

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The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction Germs and SteelFinalist 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: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are