{"product_id":"the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-paperback","title":"The Housekeeper and the Professor - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa's \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor. \u003cbr\u003eAnd every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and 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 and 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--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa'\u003c\/b\u003es fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eZoetrope. \u003c\/i\u003eSince 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRevenge\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 8.28 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 03, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44300466585702,"sku":"9780312427801","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WUQ2UGtjU0pnY2ZNNnExNzdpRHBDQT09.webp?v=1767358529","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}