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The Housekeeper and the Professor: 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly

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The Housekeeper and the Professor: 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly - Ogawa, Yoko
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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. ...

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The Housekeeper and the Professor: 'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly 2010, Vintage, London

ISBN-13: 9780099521341

Mass-market paperback