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Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
$29.95 AUD
Category: General
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
"He 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. he is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Hou ...Show more
The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yoko Ogawa
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classic Japanese Series
Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbe ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i ...Show more
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: very good
Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of b ...Show more
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