The Housekeeper and the Professor

Informationen zum Autor Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space and Zoetrope . Her works include The Diving Pool , The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police , was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.? Klappentext An enchanting Japanese novel about a brilliant mathematician who only has 80 minutes of short term memory, and the young housekeeper entrusted to look after him. Translated by Stephen Snyder. Zusammenfassung He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

Product details

• Authors: Yoko Ogawa, Yôko Ogawa, Ogawa Yoko
• Assisted by: Stephen Snyder (Translation), Snyder Stephen (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099521341
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952134-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Friendship, Fiction in translation, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Disabilities & Special Needs