The Housekeeper And The Professor

Author: Yoko Ogawa

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780099521341
  • : Random House UK
  • : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
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  • : June 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 13mm
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  • : English
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Description

"He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. he is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory."

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An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist.

Author description

Since 1988, Yoko Ogawa has written more than 20 works of fiction and non-fiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope.