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The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
3.0

Things disappear and are forgotten - or remembered as something that once was, but now you can't remember what it was or what it was for. If you do encounter something disappeared, you scarcely recognise it. The Memory police take away anyone who does remember.
Quietly devastating. Society gradually unravels and it is seen as normal and unstoppable. The end is slightly surreal and almost inevitable.