The Housekeeper and the Professor : A Novel (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from countrylife

I've been duped! All the positive chatter about this book prompted me to pick it up. But be warned: there is MATH between the covers! I don't care HOW many times people tell me, "numbers are your friends", that does not make it so. Yet this story may be the closest I've ever come to caring about ...

from stretch

A gifted mathematician, after suffering a terrible accident is left with a memory that only last for 80 minutes. His world is reduced to solving puzzles from mathematic journals. His only connection with the larger world and important events in his life is through the handwritten notes clipped to...

from brenzi

In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa uses mathematics and baseball as metaphors for life and, in so doing, has written a very imaginative and charming novel. The housekeeper is a single mother, living in Japan in the early 1990's, when she is assigned to the brilliant mathematics prof...

from brenzi

In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa uses mathematics and baseball as metaphors for life and, in so doing, has written a very imaginative and charming novel. The housekeeper is a single mother, living in Japan in the early 1990's, when she is assigned to the brilliant mathematics prof...

from zibilee

Left debilitated by an accident many years ago, the Professor lives the life of a hermit, a situation that is complicated by his memory, which only retains the past eighty minutes of his life. Anybody or any thing that has been apart from him longer than that must be reintroduced as though brand ...