As befits a distinguished mathematician, Professor has his quirks. A new housekeeper with her son, called affectionately Root from that moment, appeared one day at his doorway. Their life together will show that it’s much easier to write a complicated equation than build a relationship with another person. The languages that let them create a substitute of family are mathematics and baseball. But they’ll have to rebuild their relationship every eighty minutes…
Hakase no Aishita Sūshiki by Yōko Ogawa won the first in history Hon’ya Taishō award granted by The Japanese Booksellers Collective. This intimate story stays a bestseller to this day and is considered to be one of the most-loved novels in modern Japan.
Available in English – The Housekeeper and the Professor – and Polish, published by Tajfuny – Ukochane równanie profesora
