Policia de la Memoria

Name: Policia de la Memoria
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Yoko Ogawa, Juan Francisco González Sánchez

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Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.
28 October 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & Mystery; Languages & ESL; Spanish - Fiction; Spanish - Languages; Spanish - Fiction

Una poderosa y delicada novela, de tintes orwellianos, sobre el control social y la memoria.

En una pequeña isla se produce un misterioso fenómeno. Un día desaparecen los pájaros, al siguiente podría desaparecer cualquier cosa: los peces, los árboles... Peor aún, también se desvanecerá la memoria de ellos, al igual que las emociones y sensaciones que llevaban asociadas. Nadie sabrá ni recordará entonces qué eran.

Hay incluso una policía dedicada a perseguir a los que conservan la capacidad de recordar lo que ya no existe. En esa isla vive una joven escritora que, tras la muerte de su madre, intenta escribir una novela mientras trata de proteger a su editor, que está en peligro porque forma parte de los pocos que recuerdan. La ayudará un anciano al que empiezan a fallarle las fuerzas. Mientras, lentamente, nuestra protagonista va dando forma a su novela: es el relato de una mecanógrafa cuyo jefe acaba reteniéndola contra su voluntad en un desván.

Una obra sobre el poder de la memoria y sobre la pérdida.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A powerful and delicate novel, with Orwellian undertones, about social control and memory.

On a small island, a mysterious phenomenon occurs. One day the birds vanish, the next it could be anything: fish, trees... Worse still, the memory of them also disappears, along with the emotions and sensations they once evoked. No one will know or remember what they were.

There is even a police force tasked with hunting down those who retain the ability to remember what no longer exists. On this island lives a young novelist who, after the death of her mother, tries to write a book while protecting her editor, who is in danger because he is one of the few who still remembers. She is helped by an elderly man whose strength is beginning to fade. Meanwhile, the protagonist slowly shapes her novel: the story of a typist whose boss ends up holding her captive in an attic.

A haunting tale about the power of memory and the pain of loss.

By: Yoko Ogawa
Translated by: Juan Francisco González Sánchez
Imprint: Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.
ISBN: 9786073932943
ISBN 10: 6073932944
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 28 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yoko Ogawa (Okayama, 1962) ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor. Su magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria, finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub. Yoko Ogawa (Okayama, 1962) has won the most important Japanese literary awards, including the Akutagawa and the Tanizaki. She is the author of renowned novels, such as the famous best seller The Housekeeper and the Professor. His masterful novel The Memory Police, finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the 2020 International Booker Prize, and was considered one of the best works of the year 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review and LitHub.