The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)

ISBN-13: 9781784875442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 180 str.

Ogawa Yoko

Opis

Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical 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.

Recenzje

Beautiful...the extraordinary Yoko Ogawa casts her spell ...This is a tale which will leave the reader gasping Irish Times

O autorze

Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.