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 equations . Yoko ogawas 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 he is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem ever since a traumatic head injury he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. 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. The housekeeper and the professor this ebook is copyright material and must not be copied reproduced transferred distributed leased licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers as allowed under the terms and