The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa
Recommended by Alastair Humphreys
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Civil War and Fiction.
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problemever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of shortterm memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a tenyearold son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Civil War and Fiction.
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