Yoko Ogawa

The Housekeeper and the Professor

'a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow' Publishers Weekly
Übersetzer: Snyder, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK
• Originaltitel: Hakase ni aishita Sûshiki
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 697250
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 148g
• ISBN-13: 9780099521341
• ISBN-10: 0099521342
• Artikelnr.: 27221412

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

Highly original. Infinitely charming. And ever so touching. Paul Auster