The housekeeper is single mother to a young son who has previously been something of a latchkey child however the professor adores children and so gradually her son nicknamed root by the professor for his flat head like a square root sign begins to visit the house after school root is adept at understanding the professors behaviour instinctively from the notes that flutter from his suit to remind him of important events to knowing he should not be upset both the . The housekeeper and the professor is a novel by yoko ogawa set in modern day japan it was published in japan in august 2003 by shinchosha in 2009 the english translation by stephen snyder was published the story centers around a mathematician the professor who suffered brain damage in a traffic accident in 1975 and since then can produce only 80 minutes worth of memories and his interactions with a housekeeper and her son root as the professor shares the beauty of . The housekeeper and the professor ogawa yoko campbell cassandra isbn 9781452662893 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Each morning the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to one another the professor may not remember what he had for breakfast but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past he devises clever maths riddles based on her shoe size or her birthday and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her ten year old son . The housekeeper and the professor is a charming and enjoyable novella about eponymous professor of mathematics who due to accident years earlier suffers from peculiar form of amnesia and while he remembers everything from the past his current memory lasts only eighty minutes and as a reminder of this fact he has fitting note pinned to his suit in fact professor has plenty notes on him that rustle when he walks it also is a story about his housekeeper young single mother and her son named b