The Housekeeper and the Professor

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小川洋子: The Housekeeper and the Professor (EBook, 2009, Random House Group Limited)

Libro electrónico

Idioma English

Publicado el 18 de Diciembre de 2009 por Random House Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4090-7666-7
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Número OCLC:
586068086

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He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, 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. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her little boy. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond …

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