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Before Your Memory Fades
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The third novel in the international bestselling 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its customers the extraordinary experience of travelling through time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of the cafe's time-travelling offer. Among some familiar faces from Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s previous novels, readers will also be introduced to: A daughter who begrudges her deceased parents for leaving her orphaned A comedian who aches for his beloved and their shared dreams A younger sister whose grief has become all-consuming A young man who realizes his love for his childhood friend too late With his signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Toshikazu Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?
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Leaving Tokyo behind, we take a trip with our old friends to the sister cafe of Funiculi Funicula, where, on the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna with its wistful views also offers customers the chance to quest through time. More of the recognisable cafe owners' stories are revealed, and we also meet wonderful new characters, including the mother and daughter, who in their own independent loneliness travel through time to save each other. Tears may flow, as our time travellers once again find new vantage points on old beliefs to uncover life-affirming discoveries.
Love this book.
You cannot change the past, present or future. But you can surely find out the reason for happiness by time travel with loved ones.
In my opinion this is the best one in the series. The quirky characters, the wholesome stories make up for a great winter/autumnal reading. The setting has changed from Funicili Funicula in Tokyo to Donna Donna cafe in a port city called Hakodate in Hokkaido. This was perfect for me because the setting changes to a sea-side town and the lovely descriptions of the foliage and the changing seasons. I loved it !
An absolute âââââ/5 !
Highly recommend :)
There are 4 layered stories which are set in the small, mysterious, time-travelling, magical another cafe (Donna Donna), which is on the hillside of Mt. Hakodate, in North Japan. It is the sister cafe. The stories are of : the daughter, the comedian, the sister, & the young man. Each story is unique, interesting, and deeply personal. The author has provided the relationship map of characters (before the content page - which is very good, as one can refer to the characters while reading the story). There is a ghost (as usual), who is an old gentleman in the black. The other people are: Dr. Saki, Sachi (daughter of Kazu), Reiji, Yukari (owner of this cafe), Nanako, Seto, etc. Noted western-style houses, Hakodate (as a tourist destination), staff : Kazu (cousin of Nagare), Kei & Nagare. In this cafe, one can find the same rules (to go into the past life and to come back in the present) as in Book 1.