![]() ![]() Falling pregnant at a young age – and having no husband to raise her son alongside her – she abandoned her studies and took to working religiously in order to ensure a good upbringing for her son.Īnd through this work she meets the Professor (named simply this), a genius whose life has been forever handicapped since a car accident left him with an eighty-minute memory. This housekeeper is a wholly good woman through and through. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, whose heart was also stolen with charming clumsiness, is a simple housekeeper who remains nameless (as is common in much of Japanese literature – perhaps a reflection of the we as opposed to the I which pervades so much of Eastern social behaviour). ![]() I should say immediately that my heart was not the only one to be stolen by Ogawa’s enigmatic Professor. And in capturing this beauty, Ogawa has also captured my heart. ![]()
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