It is also, in a sense, a story about the simple experience of getting to know someone, but with a twist: the person forgets everything in eighty minutes. "She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him." . MB. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. It is a deeply moving story, which shows the human capacity for profound love and sacrifice in the face of devastating pain and loss. In stock. In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. . Description: Narrated by the Housekeeper, the characters are known only as the Professor and Root, the Housekeepers 10-year-old son, nicknamed by the Professor because the shape of his hair and head remind the Professor of the square root symbol. Yoko Ogawa tells her novel “The Housekeeper and the Professor” from the first-person reflective point of view from the perspective of main character, the Housekeeper. . The Housekeeper and the Professor is a perfectly sustained novel . . 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. 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. From a housekeeper's perspective, working for the Professor was relatively easy: a small house, no visitors or phone calls, and only light meals for one man who had little interest in food. Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales. CC Cassandra Campbell. LENGTH. This novel has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro or Kenzaburo Oe and the whimsy of Murakami. How do you form a relationship with a person who cannot remember? . . September's selection is The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. 05:55. hr min. There is a surprising clarity in this very short novel about memory, mathematics and found families. 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 every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The housekeeper and the professor : a novel. Fiction. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory." Ships from and sold by RarewavesUSA. SIZE. 269.6. --Susan Salter Reynolds Hope in the Unseen: An … Ainsi, c'est l'ouvrage de Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor, qui ouvre le bal et sera passé au crible des Tweets de la communauté à compter du 10 avril prochain. A poignant and gentle tale of a friendship between a professor (whose memory lasts approximately 80 minutes), his housekeeper and her ten-year-old son, who goes by the nickname of ‘Root’. This novel has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro or Kenzaburo Oe and the whimsy of Murakami. The professor was portrayed as the consummate professor – patient, inspiring, questioning, encouraging, and challenging to both Root and the housekeeper. The professor introduces both the housekeeper and the son to so of the intricacies of mathematics involving square roots (the young boy is given the nickname "Root"), factors, and imaginary numbers. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. . [Yōko Ogawa; Cassandra Campbell; Tantor Media.] The narrative of The Housekeeper and the Professor although brimming with compassion avoids being over-sentimental. Despite its genre I still found it compelling–I kept wondering what the professor would do next and how the little makeshift family would stay together in the face of the memory obstacle. The Housekeeper and the Professor Summary. The professor is especially enamored of prime numbers and their properties. . April 15 PUBLISHER. Genre Fiction Share