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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 him.And every morning, as the Professor & the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange & 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 & poetic world to both the Housekeeper & her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities — like the Housekeeper’s shoe size — & the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer & more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.The Housekeeper & the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, & about the curious equations that can create a family.°°° Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子), writer & novelist, was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from

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Author

Yōko Ogawa

Publisher

Vintage, Random House UK

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409076667

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14