The Housekeeper and the Professor (Audiobook)

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 technodiabla

I would call this short book a "tale" rather than a novel. It is a very sparsely told tale of an aging math professor and his housekeeper and her son. The professor's short term memory lasts only 80 minutes so they reintroduce themselves every day. However, a close friendship develops and a they ...

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...