The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa.

Kepler’s | Books Inc.
Fiction. 192 pages. Paperback. 2009.
International bestseller. Praised by The New York Times, The Guardian, and other major publications for its delicate, moving narrative.
A housekeeper bonds with a math professor whose memory resets every 80 minutes. "A deeply touching novel" - The Guardian. "Quietly beautiful" - The New York Times.

Publisher's Description:
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, his short-term memory lasts only eighty minutes. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. Every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long, the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past, and the numbers reveal a poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities—like the Housekeeper's shoe size—and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.

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