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    Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel
    Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel
    Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel

    Written by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Narrated by Kevin Shen

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    About this audiobook

    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 next captivating novel in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Before We Say Goodbye!

    Read the rest of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: 
    • Before the Coffee Gets Cold
    • Tales from the Cafe
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2022
    ISBN9781488215315
    Before Your Memory Fades: A Novel
    Author

    Toshikazu Kawaguchi

    Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the coffee gets cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

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      I want to rate this read 3.5 stars. Its not an edge-of-your-seat read. Its somehat the opposite. The feeling you get when your reading something relaxing while drinking hot coffee. I was distracted by several other reads before I finihsed this but it never occured to me not to finish it. It still this calm allure. All the situations still lets you think about what-if scenarios. Its a well-written series.