Yōko Ogawa
Paperback | Pages: 180 pages Rating: 3.95 | 28202 Users | 4647 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Housekeeper and the Professor |
| Author | : | Yōko Ogawa |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 180 pages |
| Published | : | February 3rd 2009 by Picador (first published August 2003) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Contemporary. Asia |
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He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.
And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper’s shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.
The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
Be Specific About Books To The Housekeeper and the Professor
| Original Title: | 博士の愛した数式 |
| ISBN: | 0312427808 (ISBN13: 9780312427801) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | The Housekeeper, The Professor, Root |
| Setting: | Hiroshima,1992(Japan) |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2010), Yomiuri Prize 読売文学賞 for Fiction (2003), 本屋大賞 for 1st place (2004) |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 28202 Users | 4647 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books The Housekeeper and the Professor
It gets depressing when all you read is about tragedy, conflict, injustice, loss or regret. Then a feel good book comes along like a breath of fresh air. This is a charming, bittersweet story, and unexpectedly so. I was initially drawn in by the plot, the Professor, who after a traffic accident is unable to retain any new memories longer than 80 minutes. While this quirky device supports the entire story, it is not the star. There were numerous explanations of mathematical puzzles and facts andAmicable numbers pair of keyrings Nerd Romance (https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/amic...)Not that kind of love story, but a sad, sweet story about an unlikely friendship between a brilliant mathematician, his housekeeper and her son. There is love just no romance. The Professor is 64 years old. He suffered a brain injury at age 47. He has an 80-minute retention for new memories ever since his accident. He covers his suit in notes to remember new information. He loves math, numbers, children and
A wonderful, heart-warming story about unlikely friendships....and math...and baseball! I decided to grab this one for my Japanese reading challenge for 2018 and it was the perfect story to begin reading. It's heavy into math, which I must say, I'm a bit rusty on. I was at one time fascinated by numbers, going to the highest level of math courses in college, and working for my college math professor. But then...I just lost interest in numbers (as along came computers! Nerd!)The story is of the
This is a beautifully-written, elegant little book about an old man, a maths professor, his housekeeper and her young son. The professor's memory post-1975 is only 80 minutes long, so everything is fresh and new to him all the time, including the news his memory is only 80 minutes long. The housekeeper has her own problems but finds fulfillment in the relationship, ever renewed, between her son and the professor and her growing love for mathematics. It is a mark of the author's writing that the
Happy Cubs opening day! 2018 has not been the reading year I had planned on so far. Real life and the stress that goes with it have gotten in the way of being able to focus on reading. Hopefully that changes. In the meantime in honor of the Cubs first home game this year, I am reposting my favorite baseball book from last year, a lovely novella that I am fortunate did not fly under my radar. The Housekeeper and the Professor was recommended to me by my Goodreads' friend Diane because she knows
This is a quietly wonderful book. When I was reading it I really liked it. Now that some time has passed I still think of it, and any book that I still remember months after reading is a book that deserves 5 stars. Although there is some advanced math in the story the author doesn't expect the reader to understand all of it. The numbers and math are used more to show the magic of numbers and how math brings an unlikely group of people together to form meaningful relationships. This is a
An enjoyable Japanese novel that scatters numbers, and facts about the brain, though it's primarily about friendship. It feels light, but prompts profound questions.The sitThe eponymous housekeeper is a young single mother (herself the only child of a single mother) with a ten-year-old son. She becomes daily housekeeper to a former maths professor whose head injury in 1975 means he only remembers the most recent 80 minutes, plus things before 1975, nearly 20 years before the story is set
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