However, a week after she returns to this mysterious café which is part of an urban legend. This wouldn’t seem like too big of a deal until we learn that Fumiko is extremely work focused herself and I felt was most likely neglectful of Goro during their relationship.
The Lovers introduces us to Fumiko Kiyokawa and Goro Katada, a couple who break up as he is going to America for a job. I think I will discuss each part separately and the wrap the review up with my thoughts on the book as a whole and whether I will be continuing to the other books in this series.
From what I can gather the novel is going to be following for different customers of the café which is referenced by its four parts: The Lovers, Husband and Wife, The Sisters and Mother and Child.
Review: All I knew about Before the Coffee Gets Cold before I went into it was it featured a time travelling café but with some interesting restrictions and I have been trying to read more translated books recently and this seemed like a good place to start. 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 Alzheimer’s, see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.īut 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 …Ĭontinue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel 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. 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?
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