The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction from the gargantuan cavity of

from the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II—a story of love

and poignant about these recent upheavals

“Intelligent

and widely heralded novels in recent years

Germs and Steel

The Memory Police: A Novel Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction from the gargantuan cavity ofFinalist 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