The Resource The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
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The item The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
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The item The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- "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 him. 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."--Publisher description
- Language
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- eng
- jpn
- eng
- Label
- The housekeeper and the professor
- Title
- The housekeeper and the professor
- Statement of responsibility
- Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
- Subject
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- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Japan
- Japan -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Mathematicians
- Mathematicians -- Fiction
- Memory disorders -- Patients
- Memory disorders -- Patients -- Fiction
- Short-term memory
- Short-term memory -- Fiction
- Women household employees
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Language
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- eng
- jpn
- eng
- Summary
- "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 him. 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."--Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ogawa, Yōko
- Dewey number
- 895.6/35
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Japanese
- LC call number
- PL858.G37
- LC item number
- H3513 2009
- Literary form
- fiction
- NLM call number
- Ogawa, Y.
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Snyder, Stephen
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mathematicians
- Women household employees
- Memory disorders
- Short-term memory
- Man-woman relationships
- Japan
- Man-woman relationships
- Mathematicians
- Memory disorders
- Short-term memory
- Women household employees
- Japan
- Label
- The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn301161497
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Picador ed.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312427801
- Lccn
- 2006041568
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The housekeeper and the professor, Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn301161497
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Picador ed.
- Extent
- 180 pages
- Isbn
- 9780312427801
- Lccn
- 2006041568
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
Subject
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Japan
- Japan -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Man-woman relationships
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Mathematicians
- Mathematicians -- Fiction
- Memory disorders -- Patients
- Memory disorders -- Patients -- Fiction
- Short-term memory
- Short-term memory -- Fiction
- Women household employees
- Women household employees -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
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