The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

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The Housekeeper and the Professor: A NovelYoko Ogawa 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 problemever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper, with a ten year old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the

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