a story without answers

It was a story with promise that kept the attention. the further the plot developed the more questions there were to be answered and that was part of the pull of the book. but we never got any answers and the ending, as with the rest of the book, almost as though the author had several ideas in their head but didn't want there to be any cohesion to any of it. having been gripped by it i felt somewhat let down at the end.

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Well written, no ending

Story great. Well written and performed. Didn’t like the ending. But otherwise really enjoyed it

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What I really liked and hurts the most.. is that it is really happening in some parts of the world.

This novel is so scary and haunting at the same time. I keep remembering parts of it when I watch the news or see what is "disappearing" in my country. I strongly recommend it, specially for people who live in the middle east.

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interesting concept playing with the idea of thing disappearin

weird story very trippy, interesting concept playing with the idea of thing disappearing almost philosophical idea to play with. but the story takes ages to warm up and then ending is unsatisfying. some of the charter development needs work like R and the main character story arch feels incomplete. also u don't get a satisfactory explanation for what the world is the way it is.

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Brilliant, thought-provoking, sometimes lacking

I was absolutely hooked on this book. The narration was excellent and kept me engrossed the whole way through, though at times the plot got a bit side-tracked I thought. The premise was really interesting and thought-provoking, but sometimes I felt frustrated or that something was lacking - particularly at the end - as there were so many unanswered questions which although left me thinking, also left me frustrated - was there someone responsible, someone who maybe benefited from it, someone who engineered everything on purpose as it seems - or did the human race just get too arrogant and destroy itself?

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Incredible

Brilliant performance by the narrator. Beautiful prose and a haunting story, one that will stay with you long after you finish the audiobook. A little slow to start but well worth sticking with it. Incredibly thought provoking, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I will be checking out other work from Yoko Ogawa.

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One of the worst books that I read

I was so disappointed and depressed by this book a good idea was not cleverly executed. We don’t know why and how things are disappearing. How people are functioning a society, driving, working without limbs? What is the aim of the Memory Police? How come there is mention of the things that are disappeared. For instance fruit disappeared but they eat and apple later on and dream of decorating the cake with fruit which should have been forgotten about. Ferry has disappeared but its memory and the boat still exists. r hiding in the windowless room and instead of him going up to a brighter room once in a while, people go down to his hole. No logic or common sense at all. I read this book for a book club. Otherwise would have given up. All the way I kept saying how stupid this is. Author seems to be obsessed with people loosing themselves.

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