by Yōko Ogawa · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742772230
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«La formule préférée du professeur» is the novel by Yōko Ogawa, published by Actes Sud in paperback (244 pages, in French).
A housekeeper cares for a former mathematician whose memory only retains eighty minutes. She and her son build a relationship with him through patience, baseball, and numbers; the novel turns mathematics into a language of affection and reflects on legacy and memory.
Included in the Babel collection (no. 860), with a translation from the Japanese by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle; the original work was published in Japan in 2005.
For readers of contemporary Japanese fiction and delicate stories about memory and intergenerational relationships.
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.
