Ogawa Yoko

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia TolentinoHat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be...

Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she...

Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to...

Jak przystało na wybitnego matematyka, Profesor ma swoje dziwactwa. Pewnego dnia w progu jego domu pojawia się nowa gosposia z synem, nazywanym pieszczotliwie Pierwiastkiem. Wspólne życie pokaże, że znacznie łatwiej jest napisać skomplikowane równanie niż ułożyć relacje z drugim człowiekiem. Językiem, który pozwoli im zbudować namiastkę rodziny,...