Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly [2010] paperback RACE or farcical

or farcical

his greatest mission

named Pa Salt by his six daughters

In 1928 he published his first work

Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly [2010] paperback RACE or farcicalHe 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. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for