by Yoko Ogawa · Månpocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789170018978
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«En gåtfull vänskap» is the novel by Japanese author Yoko Ogawa, published by Månpocket in paperback (351 pages, in Swedish).
A young woman starts working as a housekeeper for a mathematics professor who, after an accident, only remembers for eighty minutes. Each morning she must introduce herself again; over time a peculiar friendship develops between them and with the young woman's ten-year-old son, and mathematics becomes their common language for discovering the present.
The edition was translated into Swedish by Vibeke Emond and is part of the klimatsmart pocket collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Japanese literature, and for reading clubs interested in stories about memory and mathematics.
Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
