Descripción
One March, an employment agency sends a young housekeeper to the home of a reclusive retired professor. However, he is no ordinary professor: he was once a renowned mathematician but, after a tragic accident, he only remembers what happened in the last eighty minutes. Although he is still passionate about numbers, he has to write down important things on slips of paper to review them every day, including the identity of those around him; a situation that makes him very vulnerable. However, the professor will gradually accept the irruption of the assistant and her ten-year-old son into his life, with whom he shares a hobby: baseball.
Little by little, a beautiful relationship founded on affection and the transmission of knowledge will be forged between the three. A novel that restores hope in the human soul.
DESCRIPCIÓN EN INGLÉS 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.Autor: Yoko Ogawa
Editorial: Planeta Publishing
Publicado: 28/05/2024
Páginas: 320
Tipo de encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Peso: 0.45lbs
Tamaño: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9786073911160
ISBN10: 6073911165
Idioma: Español
Categorías BISAC:
- Ficción | Amistad
- Ficción | Vida familiar | General
- Ficción | Literatura mundial | Japón