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When Montezuma Met Cortes uses "the Meeting"-as Restall dubs their first encounter-as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortes and Montezuma

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Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly [2010] paperback RACE " She was even showeredHe is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short term memory. She is a sensitive but 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