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portada The Housekeeper and the Professor
The Housekeeper and the Professor The Housekeeper and the Professor The Housekeeper and the Professor The Housekeeper and the Professor
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.0 x 16.1 x 1.3 cm
Weight
0.19 kg.
ISBN
0312427808
ISBN13
9780312427801
Edition No.
1

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Yoko Ogawa (Author) · Picador · Paperback

The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa, Yoko

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Synopsis "The Housekeeper and the Professor "

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 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.
Yoko Ogawa
  (Author)
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Yōko Ogawa was born in Okayama, Japan, in 1962. She is a Japanese writer known for her delicate and disturbing style, which explores memory, loss, and the deepest human emotions. She studied Literature at Waseda University and since 1988 has published more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction.
Her literary career began with "Disintegration of the Butterfly" (1988), and she gained international recognition with novels such as "The Housekeeper and the Professor", "The Memory Police", "Revenge", "The Diving Pool", "Hotel Iris", and "The Girl Who Went to School on a Hippopotamus". Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has been adapted for film and theater.
Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Shirley Jackson Award. In 2020, "The Memory Police" was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.
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Juan Carlos Valdebenito Sunday, February 27, 2022
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Esta adorable y curiosa novela, de la novelista japonesa Yoko Ogawa, fue traducida al inglés con el título "The Housekeeper and the Professor", también se le encuentra en español con el título "La Fórmula Preferida del Profesor". Es una novela sencilla, amena y original, que debería ser bien acogida por cualquier lector. La recomiendo decididamente. Creo que debe ser leída por niños y jóvenes en etapa de formación, para inducir en ellos la curiosidad y atracción por las matemáticas.

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Paula Concha Thursday, September 03, 2020

es un muy lindo libro y de fácil lectura!

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