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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory.
She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every 80 minutes), the professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her young son. The professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities - like the housekeeper's shoe size - and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.
Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
©2003 Yoko Ogawa. Translation Copyright 2009 by Stephen Snyder. (P)2013 TantorLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.
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- De unco en 09-03-24
De: Yoko Ogawa, y otros
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I Am a Cat
- De: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 21 h y 50 m
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Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.
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Great performance!
- De mz en 04-03-20
De: Soseki Natsume, y otros
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Allison Hiroto
- Duración: 5 h y 41 m
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Tsukiko, 38, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei", in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is 30 years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy, which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.
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Cozy Love Story and Leisure Time in Japan
- De mz en 01-02-19
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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Heaven
- A Novel
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Scott Keiji Takeda
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.
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Great listen
- De Anthony en 07-30-21
De: Mieko Kawakami
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Breasts and Eggs
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi
- Duración: 15 h y 21 m
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Breasts & Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent.
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Masterful Writing and Performance
- De Noelle en 03-01-21
De: Mieko Kawakami
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Moshi Moshi
- De: Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda - translator
- Narrado por: Kathleen Li
- Duración: 6 h y 20 m
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Yoshie's much-loved musician father died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimokitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents, that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left behind on the day he died, or on which she is trying—unsuccessfully—to call him. Is her dead father trying to communicate a message through these dreams?
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The story is good but the performance is lacking
- De Juliana en 10-24-24
De: Banana Yoshimoto, y otros
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
- A Novel
- De: Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell - translator
- Narrado por: Alexandra Bailey
- Duración: 6 h y 59 m
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Objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers that handle them. But like those same customers and staff, they hold many secrets. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagancies, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart.
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Entire book is a dialogue of he said she said
- De mz en 01-03-19
De: Hiromi Kawakami, y otros
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Life Ceremony
- Stories
- De: Sayaka Murata
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.
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Excelente calidad
- De Anonymous User en 06-23-25
De: Sayaka Murata
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The Emissary
- De: Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Cihi
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries about him constantly. They carry on a day-to-day routine in what could be viewed as a post-Fukushima time, with all the children born ancient - frail and gray-haired, yet incredibly compassionate and wise. Mumei may be enfeebled and feverish, but he is a beacon of hope, full of wit and free of self-pity and pessimism.
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Tedious. Waste of time.
- De Kenneth McGovern en 02-17-19
De: Yoko Tawada, y otros
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The Nine Cloud Dream
- De: Kim Man-jung, Heinz Insu Fenkl - translator
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Often considered the highest achievement in Korean fiction, The Nine Cloud Dream poses the question: Will the life we dream of truly make us happy? Written in 17th-century Korea, this classic novel's wondrous story begins when a young monk living on a sacred Lotus Peak in China succumbs to the temptation of eight fairy maidens. For doubting his master's Buddhist teachings, the monk is forced to endure a strange punishment: reincarnation as the most ideal of men.
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Nine Stars
- De MJ Harkins en 06-28-21
De: Kim Man-jung, y otros
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Sourdough
- A Novel
- De: Robin Sloan
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers quickly close up shop. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her—feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.
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Read the print version if you are from SF Bay Area
- De Julie en 10-07-17
De: Robin Sloan
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All the Lovers in the Night
- De: Mieko Kawakami
- Narrado por: Mirai
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.
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Enjoyable listen
- De Rose en 05-16-22
De: Mieko Kawakami
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The Book of X
- De: Sarah Rose Etter
- Narrado por: Chloe Cannon
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday - school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents - with the surreal-rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats - Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.
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- De Calling 1 en 02-18-25
De: Sarah Rose Etter
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Territory of Light
- A Novel
- De: Yuko Tsushima
- Narrado por: Rina Takasaki
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become.
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A poetic metaphor
- De Amazon Customer en 10-21-19
De: Yuko Tsushima
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Things We Lost in the Fire
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- De: Mariana Enriquez
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent.
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Great short story collection
- De Gatster en 06-15-17
De: Mariana Enriquez
This would be one of my top books and it is the type of book that reminds me of Bel Canto in the way you fall in love with the interesting characters
Sweet enduring inserting story
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The Most Beautiful Novel...
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Beautiful merging of generations
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And the audio reading is top notch. I listen to 100+ books per year and am very particular about narrators who let the story shine rather than make distract you with overly dramatic readings or odd accents or cadences.
Math is beautiful
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Along the way, the listener learns about number theory, baseball in Japan, the struggles of a single mother, and how one man's remarkable intelligence and sensitivity have survived a terrible accident. Told from the first person perspective of the housekeeper, this book is warm, honest, and interesting, with no sentimentality. The narration is perfect and Campbell does a great job of giving voice to the young housekeeper.
This is a Gem! Well worth a Listen.
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It was definitely worth the credit.
Charming exploration of math, memory and love
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
If you love math and nonfiction, but have trouble reading fiction, you might somehow be able to read this.What did you like best about this story?
The relationship between Root and the Professor! So cute.Have you listened to any of Cassandra Campbell’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
no. But I love this.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When the housekeeper was so blue because she could not work for the professor. It made me very sad for her.Any additional comments?
Beautiful math.One of the few fiction books I have read lately.
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Very enjoyable
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The repetitive reintroductions between the housekeeper and the professor felt a bit monotonous and the cyclical nature of their interactions were both endearing and frustrating. I felt that the housekeeper’s character development was somewhat shallow. The story delved deeper into her role as a caregiver than her personal aspirations or struggles. The novel introduced intriguing math concepts, and thankfully did not delve into them extensively. 😀 The story was not about math but about themes of found family and human connection.
3.7 stars🌟🌟🌟💫!
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Because there is so little action, I couldn't help but be nagged by one of my pet peeves: The main female character has no interests of her own and only finds joy in life when living through the pleasures of the males around her. Still, I'll think about the book often as I recall amicable numbers and the strange relationship between 220 and 284.
Bechdel test: Fail — there are two female characters who speak but they don’t speak about anything other than a man.
Overall grade: B
Perfect narration.
Not much happiness but if you like mathematics...
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