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The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly

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Description for The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly Paperback. 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. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.

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.
She 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099521341
SKU
9780099521341
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3

About Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa (Author) Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Stephen Snyder (Translator) ... Read more

Reviews for The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly
Highly original. Infinitely charming. And ever so touching.
Paul Auster
A perfectly sustained novel (a tribute to Stephen Snyder's smooth translation); like a note prolonged...a pause enabling us to peer intently into the lives of its characters...has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro and the whimsy of Murakami
Los Angeles Times
Beautiful...the extraordinary ... Read more

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