[Yōko Ogawa; Cassandra Campbell; Tantor Media.] -- 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. 269.6. Ships from and sold by RarewavesUSA. Genre: Man-woman relationships; Pages : 192; ISBN 10 : 1846552508; GET BOOK . The Housekeeper and the Professor Summary. 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], Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder. . The housekeeper tries to improve the Professor’s life, taking him for haircuts, to baseball games (a favorite sport of his because of the math involved), and celebrating with him when he’s won the math puzzle contests in the magazines. Fiction. . She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. . Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every 80 minutes), the professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. In stock. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than 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. The professor instantly bonds with the fatherless boy, so she and Root spend more and more time at the professor’s home. "She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him." Livraison rapide ! . September's selection is The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa The Housekeeper and the Professor (Book) : Ogawa, Yoko : "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. Yoko Ogawa's 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. 05:55. hr min. GENRE. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, is a short, powerful, and irresistible tale told from the perspective a nameless Japanese housekeeper, who struggles to care for an intelligent man with memories lapses, the Professor. . 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. It’s interesting that for the professor, it’s as if it never happened. 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. 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. Like s. SCL_BookClubs Feb 28, 2018. The professor was portrayed as the consummate professor – patient, inspiring, questioning, encouraging, and challenging to both Root and the housekeeper. The trio begins to resemble a family, with an unspoken understanding of each other that transcends language and convention. 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. . The Housekeeper is relating her story to the reader some years after the majority of the novel has occurred in 1992. How do you form a relationship with a person who cannot remember? like a note prolonged, a fermata, a pause enabling us to peer intently into the lives of its characters. Découvrez The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa ainsi que les autres livres de au meilleur prix sur Cdiscount. Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales. It’s a feel-good book written in a smoothly flowing style, and I am planning on recommending it to my mother to read as well. The Housekeeper and the Professor is a perfectly sustained novel . Tantor Audio. Title Title Genre Genre Date (oldest) Date (newest) The Memory Police. CC Cassandra Campbell. Genre Fiction Share