The Cafe Where Memories Live - Volume 3

Translated from Japanese by Géraldine Oudin

The flavor of the past can transform the present...

On the side of Mount Hakodate, in northern Japan, the Dona Dona café is renowned for its breathtaking view of the city's harbor. But above all, just like at the Funiculi Funicula café in Tokyo, its customers can have an extraordinary experience there: traveling into the past, for the duration of a cup of coffee.

There we meet Yayoi, a young girl who resents her deceased parents for making her an orphan; Todoroki, an actor who longs for his wife and their shared dreams; Reiko, overwhelmed by the disappearance of her sister; Reiji, who realizes too late how much he loves his childhood friend... So many sincere and moving souls who, by rediscovering a part of their past, learn to look at the present differently and to envision the future with more serenity.

With his singular voice and storytelling talent that have made him successful worldwide, Toshikazu Kawaguchi delivers a new novel full of sensitivity and subtlety, as comforting as a good hot coffee.