This novel, written back in 1994, is timeless. It's about the inevitability of loss and the subtle yet powerful connection a person has with their memory. It's about the defining quality of memory. It's about how, if memory is removed from a person, what's left in its place is a void that nothing can fill. Memory, sometimes contained in the most ordinary everyday things, such as a hair ribbon, a postage stamp, a bird, a photograph, or a harmonica, is the protagonist of this unscientific, yet fantastical performance, the palette of which ranges between social satire, utopia, and Kafkaesque tragedy.

Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publishing House: Polyandria No Age
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 351
Cover type: hardback
Translator: Andrey Shaulis
Country of origin: UK
Age group: 16+