![]() ![]() The sister-in-law also explains that because the Professor has his own cottage on the property with its own entrance, the housekeeper is not to bother the widow for any reason.Īlthough the Professor is curt and unfriendly, the narrator finds the work to be simple compared to her other assignments, aside from the Professor’s distracting eccentricities. When she meets with the Professor’s widowed sister-in-law and benefactor, she discovers the reason why: The Professor was in a bad car accident in 1975, and as a result, is unable to remember anything from more than 80 minutes prior. The Professor has already gone through a large number of housekeepers, and she expects the assignment to be a difficult one. ![]() ![]() In March 1992, the unnamed narrator of the novel is assigned by her housekeeping agency, Akebono, to work for a new client, a former professor of mathematics. ![]()
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