A truly delightful, short novel that I couldn't set aside. I may be forced to look into this memory thing that the brilliant math professor had going; after 80 minutes, his tape runs out and he has to re-learn his short-term memory of what had occurred up until then. In any case, the bit of dab...
A somewhat odd but very charming book. Translated from the Japanese. A Mathematics professor had an accident which caused brain damage. His mind is still very sharp; however, his memory lasts for only 80 minutes. So he "starts from scratch" every 80 minutes. He retains his marvelous math abi...
داستان از زبان یک خدمتکار روایت می شود که در خانه یک پروفسور ریاضیات کار می کندپروفسور چند سال پیش تصادف کرده و حافظه اش بعد از تصادف فقط 80 دقیقه کار می کندپروفوسر به اعداد و روابط بین آنها علاقه زیادی دارد و کتاب به نوعی در مدح اعداد و ریاضیات استپ.ن: کتاب را دوست نداشتم اوایلش داستان خوب پیش م...
I read this, oh, late 2013, early 2014. What a pleasure. I am familiar with Oe, Murakami, but not Ogawa, and I just saw this on my new groups bookshelf. I fell headlong into this book. At times I was the professor, at times I was the housekeeper. To me, it was a beautiful story about how we ...
I'd been vaguely aware of their existence, but it never occurred to me that they could be the object of someone's deepest affection. He was tender and attentive and respectful; by turns he would caress them or prostrate himself before them; he never strayed far from his prime numbers. Whether at ...
I'd been vaguely aware of their existence, but it never occurred to me that they could be the object of someone's deepest affection. He was tender and attentive and respectful; by turns he would caress them or prostrate himself before them; he never strayed far from his prime numbers. Whether at ...
. . She invests the most seemingly banal domestic situations with a chilling and malevolent sense of perversity, marking her out as a master of subtle psychological horror' Daily Telegraph'Ogawa's fiction reflects like a funhouse mirror, skewing conventional responses, weirdly juxtaposing images ...