The Housekeeper and the Professor - by Yoko Ogawa (Paperback)

The Housekeeper and the Professor is a captivating novel that delves into the intricate and intimate connections between people, even in the face of memory loss.

The story follows a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - he can only remember for 80 minutes at a time - and an astute young housekeeper who is hired to care for him.

As they spend more time together, their relationship blossoms into something beautiful and profound. The novel explores the curious equations that create a family, as the professor discovers connections between the simplest of quantities and the universe at large.

Despite his memory loss, the professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past, revealing a sheltering and poetic world to both the housekeeper and her young son. With its deceptively elegant prose, The Housekeeper and the Professor has all the charm and restraint of any book by Ishiguro or Kenzaburo Oe, and the whimsy of Murakami.

This is a perfectly sustained novel that will keep you engaged until the very end.

Don't miss out on this beautiful and moving story that explores the power of connection and memory.