{"id":1951,"date":"2016-08-24T22:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T10:44:26","slug":"housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa &#8211; Friendship, Numbers and Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unlikely friendship develops between a housekeeper, her employer, a Mathematics Professor who has a memory span of only eighty minutes \u00a0and her son. <em>The Professor and the Housekeeper<\/em> is a very short book that you can easily finish in a couple of hours. The story has three main characters \u2013 a Professor, his housekeeper and her son and is a <em>Memento<\/em> meets <em>A Beautiful Mind<\/em> kind of book. The Professor has lost his memory in an accident in 1975 and his mind doesn\u2019t register any new memories. He has a memory span of eighty minutes &#8211; \u201c<em>it\u2019s as if he has a single, eighty-minute videotape inside his head, and when he records anything new, he has to record over the existing memories.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The Story<\/h3>\n<p>When the housekeeper is employed by the mysterious sister in law of the Professor, she isn\u2019t sure if she can cope up with a man with such a memory issue. When she first meets the Professor he is clad in a suit with reminders stuck all over (including the fact that his memory lasts only eighty minutes). This reminded me of the Tamil movie, <em>Ghajini<\/em> and the original English version <em>Memento<\/em>. The professor forgets every new day that she is his employee. Every morning the housekeeper, who narrates the story, has to introduce herself and her son to the professor all over again as well as answer his awkward questions asking her shoe size or phone number to be let in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The house keeper finds the Professor\u2019s ways fascinating rather than annoying. Soon enough he becomes friends with her son whom he calls \u2018Root\u2019 as his head is shaped like a square root. There on we see two different kinds of friendships, one between two adults and the other between an adult (with memory loss) and a child. I admire Ogawa\u2019s ability to show the fine differences between both of the connections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1953\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1953 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor2.jpg\" alt=\"book cover japan fiction the housekeeper and professor\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor2.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor2.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/the-housekeeper-and-the-professor2.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The House keeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Mathematics As A Story Element<\/h3>\n<p>I am not a die-hard fan of Mathematics but I loved the way Maths was dealt with in the book. Numbers flow like a stream throughout the book. For the Professor numbers are a familiar territory where he feels safe. He tried to define connections between everything in daily life to numbers. The housekeeper on the other hand is not the best at number solving. She symbolizes the influence of persistence and interest while exploring an unknown territory. I loved to see how the different approaches towards the subject are told in a lucid fashion. You might hate Maths, but Ogawa makes you fit right in the world of amicable and perfect numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Writing<\/h3>\n<p>So you ask, what happens then? Well, nothing happens. This is a book which does not have any huge revelations anywhere in the plot. Yet there is something about the writing that doesn\u2019t leave you bored even for a minute and makes you connect with the characters almost immediately. It was only by the end of the book that I realized that the names of the Professor and the housekeeper are not mentioned. I found this strangely satisfying.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Verdict<\/h3>\n<p>I would recommend the book if you enjoy plots that are feel-good yet tug your heart strings somewhere. It is a glimpse into a most unlikely friendship and in my opinion one that leaves you content \u00a0when you close the book.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Title : The Housekeeper and the Professor<br \/>\nAuthor : Yoko Ogawa; Translated by : Stephen Snyder (from Japanese)<br \/>\nPublisher : Vintage<br \/>\nPublished : 2010 (Originally 2003)<br \/>\nLanguage : English<br \/>\nPages : 180<br \/>\nRating : 4\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unlikely friendship develops between a housekeeper, her employer, a Mathematics Professor who has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6307,16],"tags":[6888,462,431,214,87,1634,77,264],"thb-sponsors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v22.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - Friendship, Numbers and Memories | The Book Satchel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Story of an unlikely friendship between a housekeeper, her employer, and her son told in a lucid manner by Yoko Ogawa.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - Friendship, Numbers and Memories\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Story of an unlikely friendship between a housekeeper, her employer, and her son told in a lucid manner by Yoko Ogawa.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Book Satchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/thebooksatchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"www.facebook.com\/thebooksatchel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-24T16:39:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-27T10:44:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-housekeeper-and-the-professor1.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Resh Susan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@www.twitter.com\/thebooksatchel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@thebooksatchel\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Resh Susan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/housekeeper-professor-yoko-ogawa-friendship-numbers-memories\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Resh Susan\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c066f414ca95bff496a832cc43b1e634\"},\"headline\":\"The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa &#8211; 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