the housekeeper and the professor by yōko ogawa

The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities-like the Housekeeper's shoe size-and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Hotel Iris.

Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. : The Housekeeper and the Professor (9781846552502) by Ogawa Yoko and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

And it is enough for him and his housekeeper. Is 80 minutes too short a period for love to grow For a brilliant math professor with short-term memory issues, it’s the only time available. She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. Yoko Ogawa's 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.

The housekeeper and the professor by yōko ogawa