The housekeeper and the professor
He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador USA,
2009.
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| Summary: | He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. |
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| Physical Description: | 180 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780312427801 0312427808 |
| Author Notes: | Yoko Ogawa 's 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 she has won Japan's most prestigious literary awards. Her books include The Housekeeper and the Professor , Revenge , and The Diving Pool. |
