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(literally "The Professor's Beloved Equation") is a novel by Yoko Ogawa set in modern-day Japan. It was published in August, 2003, by Shinchosha and was the first recipient of the Hon'ya Taisho award (Japan Booksellers Award).〔 http://www.hontai.or.jp/history/index.html〕〔 (J'Lit | Awards : Booksellers Award | Books from Japan )〕 The story centers around a mathematician, "the Professor," who suffered brain damage in a traffic accident in 1975 and since then can produce only 80 minutes' worth of memories, and his interactions with a housekeeper (the narrator) and her son "Root" as the Professor shares the beauty of equations with them. The novel received the Hon'ya Taisho award, was adapted into a film version in January 2006, and after being published in paperback in December 2005, sold one million copies in two months, faster than any other Shinchosha paperback.〔 http://yayoi.senri.ed.jp/departments/SISMath/0702movie.htm〕 The novel's bibliography lists the book ''The Man Who Loved Only Numbers'', a biography of the mathematician Paul Erdős. It has been said that Erdős was used as a model for the Professor. In 2009, the English translation by Stephen Snyder ''The Housekeeper and the Professor'', was published.〔''The Housekeeper and the Professor'', translated by Stephen Snyder, New York : Picador, 2008. ISBN 0-312-42780-8〕 == Plot summary == The narrator's housekeeping agency dispatches her to the house of the Professor, a former mathematician who can remember new memories for only 80 minutes. She is more than a little frustrated to find that he loves only mathematics and shows no interest whatsoever in anything or anyone else. One day, upon learning that she has a 10-year-old son waiting home alone until late at night every day, the Professor flies into a rage and tells the narrator to have her son come to his home directly from school from that day on. The next day, her son comes and the Professor nicknames him "Root". From then on, their days begin to be filled with warmth. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Housekeeper and the Professor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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