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

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Mina's Matchbox
The Memory Police

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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