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

by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
₱791.10
The Housekeeper and the Professor : 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly - Thryft
The Housekeeper and the Professor : 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly - Thryft
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010)
  • Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞 for Fiction (2003)
  • 本屋大賞 (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
₱791.10
ISBN: 9780099521341
Authors: Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2010-04-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Japan, Japanese Literature, Asia
Goodreads rating: 4.05
(rated by 72835 readers)

Description

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.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 shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory.
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  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010)
  • Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞 for Fiction (2003)
  • 本屋大賞 (2004)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.