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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. So charming - a story about a mathematics professor who, after a head injury, has only 80 minutes of memory- and a housekeeper and her son and the mathematical perfection they reach. I loved the imagery of the multiple pieces of paper pinned all over the professor’s suits to help him remember, how they rustle when he walks. A story about non-romantic love that won my heart. A woman takes a housekeeping job for an elderly mathematician who has a memory disorder where he can't remember more than 40 minutes or so into the past. She is a single mother with a 10-year-old son, and she starts bringing her son to work. The three of them create a lovely, if sometimes challenging, friendship. This heartwarming book is about the joys of loving math and baseball, and the power of friendship.
Den mycket uppskattade japanska författaren Yoko Ogawa introduceras på svenska med en riktig hjärteknipare. Annat brukar det sällan bli när gamla, sjuka gubbar sammanförs med barn. The narrator in Ogawa's mysterious, suspenseful, and radiant fable, the youngest housekeeper at the agency, knows that her new client will be a challenge: nine housekeepers have already been fired. But when she meets the Professor in his small cottage, she is intrigued instead of wary. A brilliant mathematician, he lives a surreal life. The elderly Professor can't remember anything after 1975. He can absorb new information and new experiences for 80 minutes at a stretch, then it is erased, and he has to start over. Quiet and kind, his jacket festooned with scraps of paper on which he writes notes to remind himself of what he always forgets, he spends his puzzling days solving highly advanced math problems and winning national contests. At long last, he has the perfect companions. The smart and resourceful housekeeper, the single mother of a baseball-crazy 10-year-old boy the Professor adores, falls under the spell of the beautiful mathematical phenomena the Professor elucidates, as will the reader, and the three create an indivisible formula for love AwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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. She is an astute young housekeeper with a 10-year-old son who is hired to care for the professor. Between them, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)895.635Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Japanese Japanese fiction 1945–2000LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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Characters: 7.5
Setting: 7
Prose: 8.5
Themes: Family, work, memory, relationships, time, personality, mathematics, leisure ( )