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050			_aPL858 _b.O34 2009
100			_aOgawa, Yoko
245			_aThe housekeeper and the professor/ _cYoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder.
260			_aNew York: _bPicador, _c2009.
300			_a180 Pages ; _c21 cm.
520			_aHe is a brilliant maths professor who lives with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive and astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory.
650			_aDomestic fiction
650			_aFiction.
650			_aFictional Work.
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