false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255655950m/3181564.jpg 3181564 12 He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem--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 between them a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. Though the professor can hold new memories for only eighty minutes, his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past; and through him, the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her son. <I>The Housekeeper and the Professor </I>is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. 3214322 book 2003 The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel total:686|5:210|4:301|3:140|2:30|1:5| 686 2739 1486 263 5 1 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 14:37:19 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 14:05:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:42:49 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 07:45:05 -0800 2009 5 1 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 15:04:55 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 15:11:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 13:26:24 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 13:35:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 14:51:20 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 14:52:10 -0800 2009
It is simple, gentle and character-driven, and it is also moving because it has so much insight into the human condition.

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"Any kind of uncertainty caused him pain, so we were determined to hide the time that had passed or the memories he had lost.”

Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor is the heartwarming story of the unlikely friendship between ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 13:26:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 13:45:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jun 16 07:49:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 07:50:28 -0700 2009
"Emotion and caring triumph over intellect in Yoko Ogawa's poetic novel, which features three main characters: the professor, the housekeeper and the housekeeper's son Root (so nicknamed because his flat head reminds the pro...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 09:59:20 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 18:53:38 -0700 2009 The Housekeeper and the Professor tells the truly unique story of a single mother, her 10 year-old son, and the math professor she works for. The housekeeper is the latest in the long line of housekeepers who have found it impossible to work for the professor, who as a result of an accident has onl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:56:37 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:56:37 -0700 2009
When the narrator of Yoko Ogawa’s novel The Housekeeper And ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 14:58:16 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 15:00:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 15 12:43:47 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 12:43:47 -0700 2009 The success of Ogawa's "deceptively elegant novel" (New York Times Book Review) was a surprise, considering its lack of action, romance, melodrama, and even character names (none of which are ever mentioned). However, there is enough suspense and sly humor to keep readers enchanted by this...

more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 15:55:59 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 16:05:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Mon Sep 21 05:18:45 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 10:40:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 09 08:31:46 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 12:57:59 -0700 2009 As a result of a car accident, the Professor has a long term memory that stops in 1975 and an 80 minute short term memory. Every time he meets his housekeeper (every 80-some minutes) he asks for a number such as he...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 04:50:45 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 19:36:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 09:07:58 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:04:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3181564