The Memory Police birds and Conrad Richter

and Conrad Richter

And even as Sarah wallpapers over the house's horrifying past

The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family

and an unflinching boldness with the nuanced world-building

The Memory Police birds and Conrad RichterFinalist 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 Memory Police, who are