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…
Ukochane równanie profesora [The Housekeeper and the Professor] 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.
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