the housekeeper and the professor by yōko ogawa

(…) I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. I’m so glad that your letter found me, and that my book found you. Yko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Vintage Classic Japanese Series) Paperback Octoby Yoko Ogawa (Author) 2,531 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 18.07 8 Used from 10.79 17 New from 12. I knew, as soon as I got to this passage, that this novel was going to become a favorite: One morning, sitting in a coffee shop, desperate to distract myself from my inability to make it through 1984 (sorry, George it was me, not you), I fished out the only other book in my purse: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Looking back, it must have been the buzz surrounding the film adaptation, also released in 2018, what sparked my interest.Įither way, this novel found me during a fairly bad reading slump. A young housekeeper is hired to work for him, and as they are introduced again and again, a peculiar relationship is developed. It’s not like it was a hidden gem: the book became a New York Timesbestseller in 2009. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yko Ogawa A brilliant mathematics professor experiences a traumatic head injury, leaving him with a short-term memory of only 80 minutes. How I managed to miss its existence before then, I have no idea. I’ve been on a quest to find books like The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society since I first read it in 2018, a full decade after its publication.

The housekeeper and the professor by yōko ogawa