Before Your Memory Fades

A Novel

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

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)

Another excellent book

I love this series, it’s deep, meaningful, and nostalgic. I hope they author has more! I didn’t enjoy this narrator as much as the other novels but overall they still did well

Once you start you really can't put it down

Or turn it off it's in the case of audible. Every now and then you come across a series in book form that you really long for it to just continue...

Wonderful continuation of the series.

It’s a vacation in your head with true glimpses into Japanese culture and relationships as well as descriptions of the cityscapes.

Great book from non- English author

It stands to reason that authors turning out good books are out there, but we are infrequently offered their work. A Man Called Ove springs to mind. it is interesting to observe the sheen of other cultures through their writings, though I'm certain translators are pressed to bring forth the subtleties of the native language.

Same recipe as first two books

By the third book in this series it just feels formulaic. Meh…
What would really be interesting is stories based on the book of 100 questions.