The Housekeeper and the Professor

Title: The Housekeeper and the Professor Author: Yoko Ogawa ISBN: 9781250375971 Publisher: Picador Published: 2025 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1671164 Publisher Description: 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 him. And 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