The Housekeeper and the Professor
Ogawa, Yoko
Snyder, Stephen (TRN)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 Professor is 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 BIO
Yoko Ogawa's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award.
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"Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating."--Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Personal Matter
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312427808
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312427801
Dewey Decimal: 895.6/35
Library of Congress: 2006041568
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 180
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