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January 2010
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
by Yoko Ogawa

How do you form a relationship with someone whose memory erases itself every eighty minutes? In The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, a bond develops between a brilliant math professor with no short-term memory, his conscientious housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. Bound by an interest in mathematics and baseball, the three develop a loving relationship of caretaking, memory lapses and poignant concern.

Yoko Ogawa has published over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction and has won Japan’s most prestigious literary awards. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Zoetrope. The Housekeeper and the Professor is translated by Stephen Snyder who teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College.

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