by Yoko Ogawa · Funambulista · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496601376
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«La fórmula preferida del profesor» is the novel by Yōko Ogawa, published by Funambulista in paperback (308 pages, in Spanish).
A single mother starts working as a housekeeper for an elderly mathematics professor whose memory, after an accident, lasts only eighty minutes. The professor, passionate about numbers, becomes fond of her and her ten-year-old son, whom he calls Root, and among the three a story of friendship and transmission of knowledge emerges through mathematics and baseball.
Translated from Japanese and published in Spanish in 2008, the novel was awarded the Yomiuri Prize and the Booksellers of Japan Prize.
A suitable read for fans of contemporary Japanese fiction and stories that intertwine mathematics with emotions.
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.
