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The Housekeeper and the Professor.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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This novel is narrated by a woman who works for a housekeeping agency in a small Japanese city. Temperate by nature, she is assigned a difficult client, a former mathematics professor who, because of an automobile accident, has only eighty minutes of short-term memory and is stuck in the year 1975. The narrator befriends the professor, who is especially taken with her ...

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