The Housekeeper and the Professor paperback book

The Housekeeper and the Professor paperback novel author Yoko Ogawa publisher Picador 192 pages Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family. 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 the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and 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 and 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. EXCELLENT- LIKE NEW CONDITION smoke free home make an offer NEW TO POSHMARK? USE INVITATION CODE BBAKER9 FOR $10 CREDIT WHEN YOU CREATE AN ACCOUNT AND MAKE YOUR FIRST PURCHASE The Housekeeper and the Professor paperback contemporary fiction novel. Easy beach read