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- Publisher: Picador USA
- Number of Pages: 304
- ISBN: 0312427808
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112128158
- Release Date: February 3, 2009
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #51645 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Housekeeper and the Professor" by Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Housekeeper and the Professor"Browse more products related to "Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder"Review"Ogawa weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart, and sorrow in her exquisite new novel." "Ogawa...succeeds in evoking the cosmic beauty of amicable numbers and natural logarithms, the thrill of problem-solving, and the excitement of baseball..." ""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. But even in the clearest waters can lurk currents you don't see until you are in them." "THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR is strangely charming, flecked with enough wit and mystery to keep us engaged throughout....[Ogawa is] more interested in quieter kinds of delight, particularly the pleasure of numbers, which provide a series of metaphors for the friendships that develop." "The reader comes to feel like a secret participant in this curious chronicle, and what blooms during its telling, like an exotic product of those many numbers, is tenderness." Publisher's noteHe 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. A strange relationship blossoms between a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him, in an enchanting novel that explores what it means to live in the present and to be part of a family, albeit an unusual one. Original. 35,000 first printing. AnnotationIn this intricate novel by lauded Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa, a young housekeeper and her 10-year-old son connect with a brilliant math professor who suffers from a bizarre head trauma that only allows him 80 minutes of memory. The professor can remember nothing but baseball statistics and math equations, so everything he knows about the world soon comes to be expressed as an extension of these foundations. Even though he continually forgets who they are, the professor's limited memory allows him to form a unique relationship with the boy and his mother. 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. If You Enjoy "The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Housekeeper and the Professor (Paperback)" by Yoko Ogawa (Author) and Stephe...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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