Housekeeper and the professor book club

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. It was a good book to read between books and the ladies of my group agreed. The characters in the housekeeper and the professor are nameless root is only a nickname. The housekeeper and the professor yoko ogawa, 2003 eng. Of all the countless things my son and i learned from. Reading group guide the housekeeper and the professor a. While this will be a shorter book club reflection, i feel thats appropriate with the shorter length book. My apologies to those in my book club who were waiting for this summary. I wish i had a teacher who taught me to enjoy mathto see the oddities and the fun. The professor loves mathematics, especially numbers. 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. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The housekeeper and the professor was the last book i read with my book club this 20152016 school year.

He lives in a dingy tworoom apartment, and his suit jacket is covered. On monday the book group got together to discuss the housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. Koji fujiwara is professor of mathematics at tohoku university, japan. Book club questionsthe housekeeper and the professor by yoko ogawa. It is also, in a sense, a story about the simple experience of getting to know someone, but with a twist. Online book club, the housekeeper and the professor. Every morning the housekeeper, who narrates the story, has to introduce herself and her son to the professor all over again. 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. Online book club, the housekeeper and the professor east asia. 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. She is an astute young housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him. Imagine you are writer, developing a character with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. The housekeeper comes to the professors house for the. As root and the housekeeper grow and move forward in.