Name: The Housekeeper and the Professor (in English)
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Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Yoko Ogawa
ISBN: 9780312427801

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Yoko Ogawa

Publisher

Picador USA

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.

Synopsis "The Housekeeper and the Professor (in English)"

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

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(Okayama, 1962) Escritora japonesa que ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor. La magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria quedó finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub. Su obra está inspirada por el autor Kenzaburo Oe y Anna Frank.

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Juan Carlos ValdebenitoSunday, 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 ConchaThursday, September 03, 2020
" es un muy lindo libro y de fácil lectura! "
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