Wednesday, February 12, 2025

the housekeeper and the professor - yoko ogawa (translation, 2010)


tender unpretentious and unexpected account of the friendship and love that grow between a terribly impaired older gentleman the young woman who is randomly rostered to clean his home and her young son who awakens a vein of rich humanity in the desolation of his condition.

the language is simple, quite the eighth grade reader level. the ideas are weighty to balance that: dementia caregiving loss and spiritual pain!

that the book is full of nuggets of mathematical trivia is a bonus.

i am doing quite well for books this year.

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