Dennis Overbye, The New York Times Book Review Alive with mysteries both mathematical and personal, The Housekeeper and the Professor has the pared-down elegance of an equation. and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen. But even in the clearest waters can lurk currents you dont see until you are in them. This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water. Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Deceptively elegant.

The three lives connect like the vertices of a triangle.

This novel has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro or Kenzaburo Oe and the whimsy of Murakami. like a note prolonged, a fermata, a pause enabling us to peer intently into the lives of its characters. The Housekeeper and the Professor is a perfectly sustained novel.

The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities-like the Housekeepers shoe size-and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. 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. She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. Book Synopsis Yoko Ogawas 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.

Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. About the Book He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem-since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory.

La formula del professore by Yōko Ogawa