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What would you do if you could go back in 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 café’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 . . . Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving Before the coffee gets cold 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?
Product Details
Title: | Before the Coffee Gets Cold Set [Paperback] Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
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Author: | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Uk |
SKU: | BK0510559 |
EAN: | 9781035063321 |
Number Of Pages: | 224 |
Language: | English |
Binding: | Paper Back |
Reading age : | All |
There are 4 layered stories which are set in the small, mysterious, time-travelling, magical another cafe (Donna Donna), which is on the hillside of Mt. Hakodate, in North Japan. It is the sister cafe. The stories are of : the daughter, the comedian, the sister, & the young man. Each story is unique, interesting, and deeply personal. The author has provided the relationship map of characters (before the content page - which is very good, as one can refer to the characters while reading the story). There is a ghost (as usual), who is an old gentleman in the black. The other people are: Dr. Saki, Sachi (daughter of Kazu), Reiji, Yukari (owner of this cafe), Nanako, Seto, etc. Noted western-style houses, Hakodate (as a tourist destination), staff : Kazu (cousin of Nagare), Kei & Nagare. In this cafe, one can find the same rules (to go into the past life and to come back in the present) as in Book 1.