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

ISBN-13: 9780099521341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str.

Yoko Ogawa

Opis

He is a maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a head injury 17 years ago, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is a housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as they are reintroduced to one another, a strange relationship blossoms between them.

Recenzje

Highly original. Infinitely charming. And ever so touching. Paul Auster

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.