![]() ![]() And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. ![]() Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. ![]() And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. She is an astute young Housekeeper-with a ten-year-old son-who is hired to care for the Professor. 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. 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. ![]()
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