The Museum of Silence: The unsettling new novel from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police
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A young curator takes a new job in a remote town working at the Museum of Silence. The museum’s owner has amassed a large collection of unusual artefacts over the course of her long life: each one was stolen from a local person just after their death and each one tells the story of their true nature.
Uneasy at first, the curator starts to accept taking over these clandestine collection duties. But when several violent deaths take place in the town he realises that things are more sinister than he first imagined.
An original and unsettling novel about intimacy, isolation and memory, by a multi-prize-winning star of international literature.
PRAISE FOR YOKO OGAWA:
'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times
'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than ever' Guardian
'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino
'Strange and affectingly beautiful' The Times
*Yoko Ogawa was shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize for The Memory Police*
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About the author
Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her dystopian novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.
He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 and The Memory Police was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
