The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa

The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa

His memory lasts eighty minutes. The bond they form lasts far longer.

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem: ever 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, hired to care for him. Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper must be introduced again. He cannot remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past.
When the Housekeeper’s son begins visiting after school, the Professor gives him the nickname Root and welcomes him into a world of numbers, baseball, meals and small rituals of care.
Ogawa writes with the same clarity and restraint as the equations the Professor loves. This is Japanese literary fiction in its most tender : a novel where mathematics becomes a way of noticing, caring and making a fragile world briefly whole.
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'This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times

Beautiful..the extraordinary Yoko Ogawa casts her spell ...This is a tale which will leave the reader gasping * Irish Times *
Alive with mysteries both mathematical and personal, this novel has the pared-down elegance of an equation * Oprah magazine *
Strangely charming, flecked with enough wit and mystery to keep us engaged throughout... fairy-tale surrealism and quiet spiritual wisdom * Washington Post *
This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen * New York Times *
Where Yoko Ogawa's brilliance lies is in taking such an apparently stiff framework and bending it into a work of warmth and beauty; or showing us that mathematics is not a cold, hard, science, but an elegant, complex, shimmering art. This feat of literary spoon-bending is accomplished with such calm elegance that it quite takes the breath away * The Times Book Club *

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 dystopian novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

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ISBN 13	9781784875442
ISBN 10	1784875449
Title	The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
Author	Yoko Ogawa
Series	Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2019-10-03
Number of pages	192
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