Life on the island is being systematically atomised and erased: one day photographs are removed from communal life, the next, rose petals, boats or calendars. Our narrator’s parents, an ornithologist and a sculptor, have died, their material legacies expunged by the ruthless and sinister Memory Police, who roam the island enforcing a regimen of “disappearances”.
O n an island of indeterminate location, in a house long since emptied of family life, a novelist works on her latest manuscript, the story of a typist who has lost her voice and can only articulate her thoughts via the new skills imparted by her secretarial teacher.
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