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Japan Booksellers' Award ほんやたいしょう

Edition 1 (2004)

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Winners

1 people
Yoko Ogawa おがわ ようこ award

A story of quiet bonds among a mathematician whose memory lasts only a short time, his housekeeper, and her son. The beauty of numbers resonates with human affection, creating warmth in the presence of loss.

Within fading memory, equations gently connect one person to another.

256 pages
mathematicsmemoryfamilykindness