The Housekeeper and the Professor - Couverture souple

Ogawa, Yoko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846552508 ISBN 13 : 9781846552502

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2009

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Beautiful, brilliant and profoundly strange - discover Yoko Ogawa.

He is a brilliant maths professor who lives with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is a sensitive and 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.

'Has all the charm and restraint of any novel by Ishiguro and the whimsy of Murakami' Los Angeles Times

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

'A poignant domestic drama of tender atmospherics and stealthy education...rapturous' Guardian

'Written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water... Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, 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, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her little boy. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory.

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 where one before did not exist.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846552508
• ISBN 13: 9781846552502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192