Description
Collection: Invisible Fragility
Two stories that revolve around instability: memory, time, and human connection. This collection presents two novels by Yōko Ogawa in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the rational —mathematics, language, routine— intertwines with the emotional in unexpected ways. An invitation to contemplate what holds life together when everything else begins to fade.
The Housekeeper and the Professor – Yōko Ogawa
A young housekeeper is assigned to care for an elderly mathematics professor who, due to an accident, can only retain new memories for 80 minutes. With patience and curiosity, through numbers, baseball, and small daily rituals, an unexpected bond begins to grow between them. This novel is a tribute to empathy, to the smallest details, and to the quiet ways in which we come to understand one another.
The Memory Police – Yōko Ogawa
On an island ruled by an invisible authority, things begin to disappear without explanation—and people forget they ever existed. Those who still remember are hunted down. A young writer hides her editor—one of the few who can still recall what was lost—and resists through language and creation. With hypnotic prose and an unsettling atmosphere, this novel explores forgetting, identity, and what endures even as everything else fades away.
Something is fading,
yet still lingers in the air—
a weightless outline.
* The collection includes the 2 books mentioned
