Housekeeper and the professor book club

It was a good book to read between books and the ladies of my group agreed. The professor loves mathematics, especially numbers. The housekeeper and the professor was the last book i read with my book club this 20152016 school year. The housekeeper comes to the professors house for the. Book club questionsthe housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. It was a good book to read between books and the ladies of my group agreed that it was like a breath of fresh air. The three of them create an unconventional family with their own rhythms and traditions. My apologies to those in my book club who were waiting for this summary.

The housekeeper becomes more than a housekeeper as she is the professors main caretaker. Online book club, the housekeeper and the professor. With this being an intergenerational relationship novel about a brilliant math teacher plus the intriguing memory premise, it should have been a home run for me. She is an astute young housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him. While this will be a shorter book club reflection, i feel thats appropriate with the shorter length book. In the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problemever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. Though he cannot hold memories for long his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes, the professors 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. Reading group guide the housekeeper and the professor a. Koji fujiwara is professor of mathematics at tohoku university, japan. The book is about the relationship shared by the professor, the housekeeper, and her son.

On monday the book group got together to discuss the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. The housekeeper and the professor is a charming and enjoyable novella about eponymous professor of mathematics who due to accident years earlier suffers from peculiar form of amnesia and while he remembers everything from the past his current memory lasts only eighty minutes, and as a reminder of this fact he has fitting note pinned to his suit. As root and the housekeeper grow and move forward in. Of all the countless things my son and i learned from. Every morning the housekeeper, who narrates the story, has to introduce herself and her son to the professor all over again. He lives in a dingy tworoom apartment, and his suit jacket is covered. The housekeeper and the professor yoko ogawa, 2003 eng. Imagine you are writer, developing a character with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory.