{"product_id":"the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-by-yoko-ogawa","title":"The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe is a brilliant maths 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. Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'This is one of those books 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublication: 3 Oct 2019, Vintage Classics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781784875442\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eExtent: 192 pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David's Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57535953994110,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/0892\/5225\/files\/9781784875442.jpg?v=1781182891","url":"https:\/\/www.davids-bookshops.co.uk\/products\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-by-yoko-ogawa","provider":"David's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}