"Unforgettable. . . . A masterful work of speculative fiction." --Chicago Tribune
"Ogawa's fable echoes the themes of George Orwell's 1984, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it has a voice and power all its own." --Time
"A masterpiece. . . . A novel that makes us see differently. . . . It is a rare work of patient and courageous vision." --The Guardian
"A feat of dark imagination . . . an intimate, suspenseful drama of courage and endurance." --The Wall Street Journal
"[A] masterly novel." --The New Yorker
"An elegantly spare dystopian fable. . . . It tingles with dread." --The New York Times Book Review
"Quietly devastating . . . Ogawa finds new ways to express old anxieties about authoritarianism, environmental depredation and humanity's willingness to be complicit in its own demise." --The Washington Post
"Timely, provocative reading . . . A harrowing parable about the importance of memory and the profound danger of cultural amnesia." --Esquire
"One of my favorite novels of the decade. . . . It's a perfect correction to the overwrought politico-apocalyptic fiction so fashionable in These Times. . . . It clarifies all the things our wired society muddles, especially, and most profoundly, the saving grace of the human touch." --Hillary Kelly, Vulture
"Profoundly powerful. . . . It has the timelessness of a fable, yet feels like an urgent warning about the need for resistance in a world that seems all too quick to forget the lessons of the past." --The A.V. Club
"A searing, vividly imagined novel by a wildly talented writer . . . Dark and ambitious." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The novel is particularly resonant now, at a time of rising authoritarianism across the globe. Throughout the book, citizens live under police surveillance. Novels are burned. People are detained and interrogated without explanation." --The New York Times
"Ogawa lays open a hushed defiance against a totalitarian regime by training her prodigious talent on magnifying the efforts of those who persistently but quietly rebel." --The Japan Times
"Strange, beautiful and affecting." --The Sunday Times (London)
"The Memory Police truly feels like a portrait of today. To await the future is to disappear the present--which only accelerates the speed with which now turns to then, and then turns to nothing . . . A lovely, if bleak, meditation on faith and creativity--or faith in creativity--in a world that disavows both." --Wired
"Haunting and imaginative." --Refinery29
"Ogawa crafts a powerful story about the processing of loss and the importance of memories." --Annabel Gutterman, Time
"Eerily surreal, Ogawa's novel takes Orwellian tropes of a surveillance state and makes them markedly her own." --Thrillist
"A taut, claustrophobic thriller." --Salon