Tokyo, 1938. En pleine guerre sino-japonaise, trois étudiants chinois se réunissent régulièrement autour de Yu, professeur d'anglais, afin d'assouvir leur passion commune pour la musique classique. Un jour, la répétition est interrompue par des soldats et le quatuor, accusé de comploter contre le pays, est violemment embarqué. Caché dans une armoire, Rei, le fils de Yu, assiste à la scène. ©Electre 2019

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. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in 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 couldn''t say ''You''re an idiot.'' A comedian who couldn''t ask ''Are you happy?'' A younger sister who couldn''t say ''Sorry.'' A young man who couldn''t say ''I like you.'' With his signature heart-warming characters and immersive 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?

B>What would you change if you could go back in time?/b>In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story - translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot - explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeral The man who went back to see his girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

Mao Mao, 17 ans, est enlevée et vendue comme servante dans le quartier des femmes du palais impérial. Dans cette prison luxueuse, elle fait profil bas jusqu'au jour où des princes nouveau-nés meurent mystérieusement. Elle utilise alors ses connaissances d'apothicaire pour trouver une solution. Mais Jinshi, haut fonctionnaire, devine son talent et la promeut goûteuse personnelle. ©Electre 2022

Partie seule à l'aventure, Lina se perd dans un épais brouillard. Lorsque la brume se dissipe, la jeune fille se trouve au coeur d'une ville merveilleuse dans laquelle évoluent de mystérieux personnages. Engagée dans la pension d'une mégère à la tête énorme, Lina se retrouve prisonnière et doit trouver le moyen de s'échapper. ©Electre 2021

Jade, installée depuis peu au Japon, se voit investie d'une drôle de mission : empêcher la guerre entre nodjis et jodis. Mais difficile de faire entendre raison à ces turbulentes créatures.

Dans le Japon du début de l'ère Edo, Ichirô, un enfant abandonné, est recueilli et élevé loin du monde par un ancien samouraï qui lui enseigne la voie du sabre. Quand des événements dramatiques bouleversent sa vie, il part pour Edo. A 15 ans, il doit survivre seul dans une ville labyrinthique où l'attendent mille dangers. Une nuit, il découvre une mystérieuse jeune fille au visage dissimulé.

En 1461, dans la province d'Izumi au Japon, une mystérieuse jeune femme du nom d'Hikari vit avec ses soeurs au coeur d'une forêt peuplée des petits dieux. Bien que son clan lui interdise tout contact avec les humains, elle s'intéresse à un bûcheron nommé Jûn. En 2016, à Tokyo, Mina, une jeune fille aux pouvoirs paranormaux, est entraînée dans une chasse au démon par sa camarade Natsume. ©Electre 2020