Yoko Ogawa, author portrait
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Yoko Ogawa

Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New YorkerA Public Space, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas; The Housekeeper and the ProfessorHotel Iris; and Revenge. She lives in Hyogo.
Mina's Matchbox
The Memory Police

Books

Mina's Matchbox
The Memory Police

Books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Each May, we honor the stories, histories, and cultures of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Below is a selection of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books by AANHPI creators to share with your students this month and throughout the year. Find our full collection of titles for Higher Education here.

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FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Yoko Ogawa’s Mina’s Matchbox

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.   The first vehicle I ever rode in was a baby carriage that had been brought across the sea, all the way from Germany. It was

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