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The Housekeeper and the Professor

Yōko Ogawa Original title 博士の愛した数式 (Japanese, 2003)

The Housekeeper and the Professor is a novel by Yōko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in August 2003, by Shinchosha and was the first recipient of the Hon'ya Taisho award .The story centers around a mathematician, "the Professor," who suffered brain damage in a traffic accident in 1975 and since then can produce only 80 minutes' worth of memories, and his interactions with a housekeeper and her son "Root" as the Professor shares the beauty of equations with them.


“A problem isn't finished just because you've found the right answer.”

Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor

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