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Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - undifferentiated

The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - undifferentiated takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 17 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1994. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 48 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 17 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

「在妳出生之前,島上曾經有好多好多東西。晶瑩剔透的、芳香宜人的、閃閃發亮的、光豔動人的……總之,有許多妳作夢也想不到的美好事物。」小時候,母親總是對我訴說關於「消滅」的故事。我們居住的小島上,事物陸續消滅。緞帶、鈴鐺、郵票、綠寶石、香水…… 這些東西消滅的時候,大家的記憶便隨之燒毀埋葬,心靈也逐漸乾涸枯竭,徒留記憶的空洞。只有母親把這些遺落的記憶細心收藏在祕密櫃子裡。然而,我卻意外失去了母親、失去了父親、失去了雙親的遺物…… 如今,生命中另一個重要的事物又即將消滅…… 當世上的一切消失殆盡,唯有收藏著祕密結晶的人,才能擁抱未來活下去。

Subjects: Fiction, general, Authors, fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, dystopian, Loss (Psychology), Fiction

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