Housekeeper and the professor book club

Online book club, the housekeeper and the professor east asia. The housekeeper and the professor was the last book i read with my book club this 20152016 school year. The characters in the housekeeper and the professor are nameless root is only a nickname. As root and the housekeeper grow and move forward in. My apologies to those in my book club who were waiting for this summary. The housekeeper comes to the professors house for the. 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. Online book club, the housekeeper and the professor. I happened to check out a book club copy of this novel with eleven discussion. 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 professor loves mathematics, especially numbers. It was a good book to read between books and the ladies of my group agreed. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Of all the countless things my son and i learned from. Koji fujiwara is professor of mathematics at tohoku university, japan.

Book club questionsthe housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. The housekeeper becomes more than a housekeeper as she is the professors main caretaker. Imagine you are writer, developing a character with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. It is also, in a sense, a story about the simple experience of getting to know someone, but with a twist. The three of them create an unconventional family with their own rhythms and traditions.

While this will be a shorter book club reflection, i feel thats appropriate with the shorter length book. He lives in a dingy tworoom apartment, and his suit jacket is covered. I wish i had a teacher who taught me to enjoy mathto see the oddities and the fun. She is an astute young housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him. 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. On monday the book group got together to discuss the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. In the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. Every morning the housekeeper, who narrates the story, has to introduce herself and her son to the professor all over again. The book is narrated by the housekeeper of the title, a single mother employed by an agency, who is assigned a new client. 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. The book is about the relationship shared by the professor, the housekeeper, and her son. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship. The housekeeper and the professor brown girl reading.