The professor spends much of his time solving abstract mathematical equations, working on solutions to complex mathematical quizzes, and entering contests that he often wins. Unsurprisingly, such difficult circumstances have led to rapid turnover among the previous housekeepers his sister-in-law has hired. Each time he sees the housekeeper, for example, it is as if he is meeting her for the very first time. He can remember his mathematical genius, but he cannot recall anything in the present except what has happened in the last eighty minutes. Many years earlier, the professor was involved in a serious automobile accident that has affected his memory. Her task is to oversee the well-being of the professor, who lives in a tiny cottage adjacent to his sister-in-law’s larger house on the same piece of property. The Akebono Housekeeping Agency has given the housekeeper a new assignment. The set-up involves only four characters-the professor, his sister-in-law, the housekeeper, and her son. A simple precis of Yoko Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor cannot do justice to the mystique of this very special story.
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