by Yōko Ogawa · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742756513
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«La formule préférée du professeur» is the novel by Yōko Ogawa, published by Actes Sud in paperback, in French.
A housekeeper cares for a former mathematician who only remembers the last eighty minutes of his life. Each morning she must introduce herself again, but her ten-year-old son and she end up sharing with him baseball, numbers, and the professor's favorite formula: a story about memory and the bonds between generations.
Translated from the Japanese by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle. Winner of the Yomiuri Prize and the Booksellers of Japan Prize; shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
For readers of Japanese literature and contemporary fiction who enjoy intimate stories about memory and human connections.
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.
