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The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel by Yōko Ogawa
30 reviews
emotional
sad
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:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia, Car accident
Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Pregnancy
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-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
this was such an amazing read. the characters are so developed and the writing was exceptional. the connections formed between the characters were so wholesome and i just felt so deeply for these characters and their lives. i would 100% recommend this again and again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not enough happened in this book to consistently keep my attention, but nonetheless it was good.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
emotional
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Minor: Blood, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The story about the professor whose memory stopped in 1975 and can't go beyond last 80 minutes and the relationships with his housekeeper , her son and his sister-in-law is a touching tale about love, friendship and coping with lack of your own past. It is written in wonderful language that skilfully shows the beuty of mathematics.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Bullying, Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Dementia
Minor: Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Car accident
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
the housekeeper and the professor is a touching, subtle, simultaneously simple and complex story. in the vein of much of japanese literature, it has a whimsy touch, able to weave magic in and from the simplest, most ordinary things.
the immense significance and amount of math did throw me off guard, but i was also awed at how ogawa was able to make it seem poetic and, dare i say, even slightly miraculous. but the baseball sections def made me feel lost as i have no knowledge abt it whatsoever.
my fav thing abt this book is perhaps the relationships and bonds between the main characters: the housekeeper, her son, and the professor, where the latter's short-term memory--which couldve easily been just sth to make the book ~quirky~--actually strengthened the aforementioned relationship, and their time and mini adventures tgt, though so ordinary, felt like remarkable, subtly magical feats. i also appreciate how the book didnt make the ending melodramatic w/ a sudden death like i was dreading. a touching, though intimidatingly math-filled story.
the immense significance and amount of math did throw me off guard, but i was also awed at how ogawa was able to make it seem poetic and, dare i say, even slightly miraculous. but the baseball sections def made me feel lost as i have no knowledge abt it whatsoever.
my fav thing abt this book is perhaps the relationships and bonds between the main characters: the housekeeper, her son, and the professor, where the latter's short-term memory--which couldve easily been just sth to make the book ~quirky~--actually strengthened the aforementioned relationship, and their time and mini adventures tgt, though so ordinary, felt like remarkable, subtly magical feats. i also appreciate how the book didnt make the ending melodramatic w/ a sudden death like i was dreading. a touching, though intimidatingly math-filled story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Death, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Dementia
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Medical content, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Centers around memory loss (chronic anterograde amnesia) as a result of a traumatic brain injury, although the character experiencing this is not the perspective character. Car crash described in semi-graphic detail once or twice. One description of a dead, decaying animal.