Housekeeper and the Professor A Novel

Name: Housekeeper and the Professor A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312427801

ISBN-10: 0312427808

ISBN-13: 9780312427801

Edition: N/A

Authors: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder

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He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiarn problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son who is hired to care for him. And between them a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. Though the professor can hold new memories for only eighty mintues, his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past; and through him, the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her son.The Housekeeper and the Professoris an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 2/3/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.64" wide x 8.24" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English

Since 1988, Yoko Ogawa has written more than twenty 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. Harvill Secker published The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, in 2007 and her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor in 2009.