The Housekeeper and the Professor

Paperback Published on: 03/07/2014; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
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Synopsis

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him.

Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant 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.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099521341
  • Number of pages: 192
  • Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 11 mm
  • Weight: 140g
  • Languages: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)

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The Housekeeper and the Professor
So good on so many levels
This was such a comfortable read for me and touched me at many different levels. Firstly, it is a very engaging story, involving just a small number of eq... READ MORE
Lance Mitchell
The Housekeeper and the Professor
A beautiful, warm and gentle exploration of human connection.
This month we travelled to Japan for our Read Around the World Book Club on Goodreads. I can honestly say that The Housekeeper + The Professor by Yoko Ogaw... READ MORE
Milena Widdowson
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
Joyfully heartbreaking
I read this thinking it would be a happy little story oh how I was wrong this book made me sob and not in the normal sense I mean ugly sob it was so heartb... READ MORE
Rin Burchett
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
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The Housekeeper and the Professor was a book that going to be super beautiful and in a way, it was, but not how I thought it would be. If you love maths, t... READ MORE
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