The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly

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And through this work she meets the Professor (named simply this), a genius whose life has been forever handicapped since a car accident left him with an eighty-minute memory.

Thus, I was moved by the relationship of the three characters in this slim novel, and enjoyed trying to solve the math proofs along with the housekeeper and hoped upon hope that the professor’s dementia would improve even though from experience I knew it would not. The narrator and Root visit the Professor at the facility for years until he eventually passes away; once a month, they pack lunch, picnicking with the Professor when the weather is nice so he and Root can play catch. The novel's bibliography lists the book The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, a biography of the mathematician Paul Erdős. Plotting out the sister and brothers and cousins and aunts and the in-laws of numerical familial relations is what keeps mathematicians up at night.I decided to grab this one for my Japanese reading challenge for 2018 and it was the perfect story to begin reading.

An old-fashioned garden door was set into the hawthorn hedge, but it was secured by a rusty lock that was covered in bird droppings.A highly polished, smooth, shining surface of a novel that was exquisitely crafted from start to finish.