![]() Battaglia remarked that Kawaguchi’s style, as translated by Trousselot, is often repetitive and inelegant. Both the Christian Science Monitor’s Terry Hong and Chicago Review of Books’ Ian J. His third novel, Before Your Memory Fades (2018), will be published in English in fall of 2022 and describes a time-traveling café set in Japan’s Hokkaido Prefecture.Īmerican reviewers of the novel have had mixed responses. It was published in Japanese in 2017 and in English in 2021. Kawaguchi has since written a sequel Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, which introduces new characters to the same café. He adapted the book from the commercially successful play of the same title, which won the 2013 Suginami Drama Festival prize. ![]() Prior to debuting as a novelist with this book, author Kawaguchi was an esteemed playwright in his native Japan. ![]()
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