Before Your Memory Fades
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Fiction
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 Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heart-warming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before Your Memory Fades, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time? Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1) Tales from the Cafe (Book 2) Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3) Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4) Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5) Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
Bridges
Books that connect different domains
Bridges summary
Toshikazu Kawaguchi's *Before Your Memory Fades*, the highly anticipated third installment in the beloved *Before the Coffee Gets Cold* series, invites readers back to the enchanting Cafe Donna Donna, a haven where the impossible—time travel—becomes a poignant reality. This novel, like its predecessors, offers a deeply human exploration of regret, second chances, and the enduring power of memory, themes that resonate strongly with a curated selection of connected books. The connections drawn to *Broken Country* by Clare Leslie Hall, *The Re-Do List* by Denise Williams, and *Twice* by Mitch Albom reveal a shared narrative landscape where characters confront the indelible whispers of their past.
The bridge between *Before Your Memory Fades* and *Broken Country* lies in their mutual examination of how individuals navigate the inescapable echoes of their history. While Hall’s novel, as noted in its Reese's Book Club designation, delves into the weight of circumstance and indelible pasts, Kawaguchi’s characters at Cafe Donna Donna are granted a unique, albeit strictly governed, opportunity to revisit these very circumstances. Both narratives, despite their different fictional settings and mechanisms, underscore the human condition's capacity for enduring sorrow and the quiet, often hard-won, journey toward acceptance. The desire to understand or alter past events, which drives the patrons of Donna Donna, mirrors the internal struggles faced by characters in *Broken Country* as they grapple with what has shaped them.
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