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Author: Ogawa, Yoko
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 3 October 2019 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Classic Japanese Series' series.
Paperback | 192 pages
190 x 161 x 16 | 182g
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
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one
another. The 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 sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and
her ten-year-old 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.
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