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Stephen Snyder interview: 'The Memory Police resonated with readers experiencing a new sort of reality'
The translator of our October Book of the Month talks about the impact of being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022, the Japanese fiction boom – and why this 20th-century novel speaks to 21st-century readers