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  • The Housekeeper and the Professor

  • Written by: Yoko Ogawa
  • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
  • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (22 ratings)

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The Housekeeper and the Professor

Written by: Yoko Ogawa
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Publisher's Summary

He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. 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. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her young son. The professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities - like the housekeeper's shoe size - and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.

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.
©2003 Yoko Ogawa. Translation Copyright 2009 by Stephen Snyder. (P)2013 Tantor
Psychological Literary Fiction
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What the critics say

"Ogawa weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart, and sorrow in her exquisite new novel." ( Publishers Weekly)

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I wasn't sure what to expect

I wasn't sure what to expect but I liked it. it was nice and wholesome story I cried at the end

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What a shame that a good story is ruined by intermittent robots reading So stilted and bland

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