Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Length: 272 pages
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Description
“If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee–the chance to travel back in time.
Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.
Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?”
Janet Dore –
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“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.”
Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a lovely magical realism gem translated from Japanese to English. A blend of short stories and novel, it tells the intimate stories of several people who choose to travel in time from a special chair in a neighborhood coffeehouse.
Character development is as good as it gets. I could literally see, hear and feel every character. Yet, it’s not a verbose book, which speaks to the mad skills of the author. He is able to convey so much so effortlessly.
I shed quite a few public tears while reading this one…tears of sadness, hope, happiness and a myriad of other emotions. It’s “feel good fiction” without the cheesiness.
I’m not usually a series person, but I was happy to find out this is the first book in one.