TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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 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."--Publisher description.
AU  - Ogawa, Yōko,
AU  - Snyder, Stephen,
CN  - PL858.G37
ET  - 1st Picador ed.
ID  - 1380449
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Women household employees
KW  - Memory disorders
KW  - Short-term memory
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Memory
KW  - Man-woman relationships.
KW  - Mathematicians.
KW  - Memory disorders
KW  - Short-term memory.
KW  - Women household employees.
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Short-term memory
KW  - Women household employees
KW  - Memory disorders
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from the Japanese.
N2  - "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 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."--Publisher description.
SN  - 9780312427801
SN  - 0312427808
SN  - 031242597X
SN  - 9780312425975
T1  - The housekeeper and the professor /
TI  - The housekeeper and the professor /
ER  -