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Title: The Housekeeper and the Professor Author: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (translator)
Published: 2003
Language: English (translated from Japanese)
Pages: 180
Rating: 5/5
Summary:
A young housekeeper with a ten year old son comes to work for a brilliant math professor whose suffered a traumatic brain injury, causing his short term memory to only last for 80 minutes.
Review:
I loved this book!
This is a quiet and calm exploration of memory, friendship and math, and I loved every minute of it. It's charming and explores of unlikely connection between people, and alongside that it takes a look at how math and numbers are all around us, as if alive. Luckily for someone like me who doesn't know a lot of math, there's not really much need to understand it; it's more about the beauty of numbers than the understanding of them.
It's a simple story, but touching. I loved getting to know the characters, and reading about the setting and the time period. It's written in a sort of fluid way that I love, every page was wonderful.
It's definitely one of my favorite books I've read this year, and I'd really recommend it for readers who like quiet stories about friendship.
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