Yoko Ogawa

参加作品

Chinese Vegitables
Original Concept
A young woman is being offered seeds from a so-called incredibly energetic vegetables . The care which requires the culture of these vegetables opens to the young woman internal perspectives which transform her step by step. The insipid routine of this young woman takes slowly a sense...
博士の愛した数式
Novel
10歳の息子を育てながら家政婦として働くシングルマザーの杏子。不慮の事故が原因で記憶が80分しかもたなくなってしまった数学博士の身の回りの世話をすることに。彼は記憶の欠陥を補うため、忘れてはならない事柄をメモしては自分の着ている服にあちこち貼り付け、また、自分のお得意の数式をしばしば話題にし、他人と独自のコミュニケーションをとっていた。最初は面食らった杏子だが、次第に博士の人柄に魅せられていく。
薬指の標本
Novel
When she is slightly hurt in the factory where she works, Iris quits her job and finds a new one as an assistant in a laboratory of a very peculiar kind. Without fully grasping what is at play around her, she gradually engages in a disturbing love affair with her enigmatic employer.
The Memory Police
Novel
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things have begun to disappear: at first little things: ribbons and then roses. Soon, photographs. However, a rare few are able to remember all that no longer exists – but the Memory Police are determined to make sure that what has been erased, remains forgotten forever. When a young novelist realizes her book editor is one of those able to still remember, she hides him in a room beneath her floorboards. As the world closes in around them, they struggle defiantly to hold onto the truth.