The Housekeeper and the Professor

From one of Japan's most beloved bestselling authors, Yoko Ogawa, comes an achingly beautiful story about family, memory, and math.

Yoko Ogawa's 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 she has won Japan's most prestigious literary awards. Her books include The Housekeeper and the Professor, Revenge, and The Diving Pool. Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzabur- -e, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.