Buy 3 Get Another Free On All Under S$10
Get 10% off all year round! Join Thryft Club
Get 10% off all year round and $10 off your next order! Join Thryft Club
Stay in touch and win free books! Sign up

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

Regular price ₱791.10
Unit price
per
  • 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

Regular price ₱791.10
Unit price
per
ISBN: 9780099521341
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2010-04-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
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.
Condition guide
Availability
 
(0 in cart)

Similar Reads

  • 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.