The Housekeeper and the Professor (博士の愛した数式) by Yoko Ogawa is a short read, mesmerising in its heart-warming story about unlikely friendships, mathematics and baseball. It has sold in excess of 4 million copies in Japan alone. This is a beautifully-written story about an old maths professor, his housekeeper and her young son. After a traffic accident in 1975, the professor’s memory post-1975 lasts only 80 minutes. ...

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