{"product_id":"buy-the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-y-ko-ogawa-stephen-snyder-9781846552502","title":"The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Yōko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAbout Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Harvill Secker\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished date: 2009\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 180\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781846552502\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGoodReads Rating: 4.0\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCondition \u0026amp; Size\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSize: UK Demi Format (Large Format 130 x 210 mm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook Type: Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch4\u003eSummary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--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 between them a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. Though the professor can hold new memories for only eighty minutes, his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past; and through him, the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the houseeeper and her son. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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 where one before did not exist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ogawa, Yōko; Snyder, Stephe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43221468708941,"sku":"CONF20260708197","price":89.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9781846552502_20260706_125503.jpg?v=1783536647","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-y-ko-ogawa-stephen-snyder-9781846552502","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}