| The Housekeeper and the Professor Contributor(s): Ogawa, Yoko (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312427808 ISBN-13: 9780312427801 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006041568 |
| Lexile Measure: 940 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.32" W x 8.28" (0.41 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. 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. She is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor.And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. 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 the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ogawa, Yoko: - Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Hotel Iris. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor has been adapted into a film, The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son. |