The story of The Housekeeper and the Professor is that of the two characters already mentioned in the title plus the housekeeper’s ten-year-old son and the poetry of mathematics.

It begins in March 1992 when the narrator takes up her job as the professor’s housekeeper in a shabby back yard garden pavilion. The professor used to be a renowned mathematician until a car accident in 1975 left him with an eighty-minute memory. The housekeeper is intrigued by the professor’s capacity to see figures of everyday life in a mathematical light. One day she mentions her ten-year-old son and he insists that the boy comes to the pavilion after school to be in his mother’s care. It is the beginning of a strange friendship held together by the beauty of mathematics and the love for baseball.

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The Housekeeper + The Professor - Yōko Ogawa,Stephen Snyder 

Mitreißend vorgetragene Hörbuchversion von Heinrich Manns gesellschaftskritischem, teils fast zynischem, Schulroman. 

My authorial compadre at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Kane Faucher, did a great job of interviewing me a while back, and it appeared in print today. Seriously. on PAPER, so you know it’s legit! 

Added to a few books that I've read and like. Which either confirmed that these books are the new list of must read, or that just are most popular books the writer could remember.

Nevertheless, these are really good books. Most of them I read, few are on my to-read pile.

A year already. And I still got a few dozens books that need to read. But these are going to jump the queue and go on the front of line.

Why? Human need to understand better about human and the system we live in. We could no longer afford to be ignorant. 

Time is pressing. 

Woohoo!