![]() ![]() The Professor, having suffered a serious brain injury in an auto accident in 1975, now cannot remember anything past 1975 for longer than about 80 minutes, while his memory of events before, and knowledge of all things relating to mathematics, is exact. The Professor is nominally cared for, and financially provided for, by his widowed sister-in-law. ![]() ![]() The Housekeeper is part of the Akebono Housekeeping Agency, and has been assigned to the Professor. The novel takes place in the spring, summer, and autumn of 1992, when the Housekeeper is 28 and her son is 10. “The Housekeeper and the Professor” is a contemporary novel by Yoko Ogawa in which the young single mother, the Housekeeper, comes to care for the elderly and amnesiac Professor with her son, Root, learning much about life and mathematics in the process. ![]()
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