{"title":"Yoko Ogawa","description":"Yoko Ogawa is the author of Mina's Matchbox,  The Memory Police, Hotel Iris, The Diving Pool, and The Housekeeper and the Professor. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker,  A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor was adapted into the 2006 film The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son. Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.","products":[{"product_id":"the-housekeeper-and-the-professor-paperback","title":"The Housekeeper and the Professor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa's \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is an astute young housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101176172767,"sku":"9781250375971","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BJR_GOxdy-9781250375971.webp?v=1781068408"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/yoko-ogawa.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}