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A review by stories_of_the_soul27
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
This was such a beautiful book! There was so much of love, consideration, empathy and warmth in this story that it melted my heart. It is amazing that you never know what fate has in store for you, that someday you might happen to meet a person who changes your life in unimaginable ways that are neither grand nor complex but you feel the change in your thinkings, habits, etc.
The book was so simple. It was about a Housekeeper getting assigned to work for a Maths Professor with a memory loss problem where in he can retain only 80 minutes of his memory before it getting rewritten. The housekeeper also has a 10 year old boy and the professor and the boy develop a grandfather-grandson relationship. The story follows their daily life featuring maths, baseball, homework, housework etc yet the story flowed so gently. There is beauty in the mundane life and time and again Japanese authors have shown it to me and Yoko Ogawa perfected it in her book.
The book was so simple. It was about a Housekeeper getting assigned to work for a Maths Professor with a memory loss problem where in he can retain only 80 minutes of his memory before it getting rewritten. The housekeeper also has a 10 year old boy and the professor and the boy develop a grandfather-grandson relationship. The story follows their daily life featuring maths, baseball, homework, housework etc yet the story flowed so gently. There is beauty in the mundane life and time and again Japanese authors have shown it to me and Yoko Ogawa perfected it in her book.