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The million-copy bestselling series
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the coffee gets cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do 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.
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, see their sister one last time, and 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 . . .
Product Details
| Title: | Before the Coffee Gets Cold |
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| Author: | Toshikazu KawaguchiGeoffrey Trousselot |
| SKU: | BK0478824 |
| EAN: | 9781035035052 |
About Author
There are 4 layered stories which are set in the small, mysterious, time-travelling, magical cafe in Tokyo named Funiculi Funicula. There are : lovers (Fumika & Goro), husband-wife (Fusagi and Kohtake - a very touching story), sisters (Hirai & Kumi) & mother-child (Kei & Miki). Each story is unique, interrelated, and deeply personal. The character's (with their past and current situations) journey are relatable. Noted Japanese home structure, climatic conditions, decor of the cafe, staff (helpful and kind) in the cafe, i.e.., Kazu, Kei and Nagare. In the cafe, one can find the rules. These are: 1) The only people one can meet while visiting the past who have visited the cafe and once the coffee is poured., 2) One cannot change the present life., 3) in order to return the past, one have to seat in that seat and to be alone., 4) while back in the past, one must stay in the seat and not to ve moved., 5) There is a time limit (one must return before the coffee gets cold).
"Before The Coffee Gets Cold" is a poignant exploration of love and regret, cleverly woven around a mystical café where patrons can travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's tender storytelling invites readers to ponder life's what-ifs, offering a heartfelt journey that lingers long after the last sip of coffee.