The Memory Police Teethers she lives by her mother's

she lives by her mother's words—Simply to endure is to triumph—and gradually

and a husband who showers her with attention

How they came to be and how we live with them now

By Aldous Huxley

But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony-and everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect

The Memory Police Teethers she lives by her mother'sBy Yoko Ogawa Paperback Finalist 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