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Ladataan... Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2015)Tekijä: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
   Japanese Literature (75) Magic Realism (122) » 23 lisää Best of World Literature (121) Books Read in 2020 (1,674) Five star books (772) One Book, Many Authors (398) Reading Globally (58) Time Travel Stories (35) SHOULD Read Books! (171) 2010s (52) Best Cozy Fantasy (10) Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta.  srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 |  I enjoyed this book. I am always intrigued by the concept of time travel. This is four interlinked stories taking place in a small cafe where it is possible to time travel. Four people undertake this journey even though there are restrictive rules, including that they must return before their cup of coffee gets cold. What I liked is that the time travelers knew they couldn't change the present, but went back to gain perspective and make things better in one important moment in their lives. As often occurs with interlinked stories, there is some repetition. In this case, the descriptions of the cafe and explanation of the rules gets a bit tedious. And character development suffers a bit in comparison to a good novel. But the book was a good read with some very poignant moments. (  ) LynnB | Aug 13, 2023 | Digital audiobook performed by Arina Ii A particular coffee shop in a Tokyo back-alley has been serving customers for more than one hundred years. More than the coffee, the shop offers a unique experience – the chance to travel back in time to a particular moment. But there are rules: you can travel only once; nothing you do or say will change what is the present reality; your visit will end as soon as the coffee gets cold. Over a few months four distinct customers elect to make the trip for different reasons. This was just a delightful surprise. I quickly became invested in each character’s life and his or her reasons for traveling. The vignettes are in turns humorous, tender, insightful, or frustrating. It made me wonder who I’d visit, what ONE person and ONE instant in time would I want to experience again. I would definitely read more from this author. (  ) BookConcierge | Jul 14, 2023 | Cried twice. Will be thinking about this for a while. (  ) Ciaancy | Jul 13, 2023 | A small, out-of-the-way cafe is rumored to be a place where people can travel back in time - but there are a lot of rules. Travelers can only be in one seat; they can't get up; they can only stay for the length of one cup of coffee; and they can only talk to people who have been to the cafe in the past. Also, whatever anyone does when they go back doesn't change anything in the present. Still, Fumiko - whose boyfriend told her a week ago in that same cafe that he was leaving to take a job in America - wants to talk to him again. And afterward, she asks the unflappable waitress Kazu, "What about the future?" Kazu replies, "I guess that's up to you." I love the premise, but something about the book felt clunky to me - perhaps the translation from Japanese to English, or from play to novel. When I put it down, I wasn't eager to pick it up again. Stopped after 100+ pages. (  ) JennyArch | Jun 23, 2023 |
In four intertwined chapters, Kawaguchi invites readers to accompany four intrepid adventurers who desire a second chance at a crucial conversation in their lives.... Interwoven into what initially feels like a whimsical escape are existential conundrums of love and loss, family and freedom, life and death. “[N]o matter what difficulties people face,” Kazu muses at book’s end, “they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.” Before the Coffee Gets Cold, the debut novel from playwright Toshikazu Kawaguchi... inventively limits the mechanics of its time travel to the confines of a small cafe, and is all the more resonant for it.... Although the characters are unable to alter the past, the implications they bring forward into the future are real, and the experiences the characters undergo carry real weight on the narrative, which is reflected as the stories progress. While not usually one to shy away from spoilers, I think the real enjoyment of the novel comes not from the way the narratives are told, but the individual narratives in themselves. They are at times a bit sappy, and don’t go in expecting many twists – but this doesn’t take away from the emotional weight behind these moments. In four connected tales, lovers and family members take turns sitting in the chair that allows a person to travel back in time for only as long as it takes a single cup of coffee to cool.... The characters learn, though, that even though people don’t return to a changed present, they return “with a changed heart.” Kawaguchi’s tender look at the beauty of passing things, adapted from one of his plays, makes for an affecting, deeply immersive journey into the desire to hold onto the past. This wondrous tale will move readers. Kuuluu näihin sarjoihinPalkinnotNotable Lists
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HTML:*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* *NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* 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 i Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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“They were in a windowless basement café. The lighting was provided by just six shaded lamps hanging from the ceiling and a single wall lamp near the entrance. A permanent sepia hue stained the café interior. Without a clock, there was no way to tell whether it was night or day. There were three large antique wall clocks in the café. The arms of each, however, showed different times. Was this intentional? Or were they just broken? Customers on their first visit never understood why the clocks were like this.”
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi features four interwoven stories set in the retro Funiculi Funicula Café in Japan – a café that is not only popular for its aromatic brew but one that is the subject of an urban legend as the “ café that transports you back in time”.
Time travel, as facilitated by the cafe, is possible but under strict rules and limitations at the center of which (contrary to popular belief influenced by movies and novels) is : “There is nothing you can do while in the past that will change the present.”
One would wonder why then, would someone go back in the past if it would have no visible impact on the present. If your regrets, missed opportunities and mistakes are not undone and your life does not change for the better why would you go to the trouble of embarking on such a journey? As we meet the owners, staff and patrons of this magical café, a few of whom facilitate the journey for others and some who partake in the venture for different reasons -a young professional who believes she has chosen her career over the man she loves, a wife dealing with her husband's Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a woman who is racked by guilt for the way she treated her late sister and an expectant mother who is willing to sacrifice her life to bring her baby into this world- we share their experiences of time-travel and the impact that the same has on them and their lives Ultimately this is a story about love, relationships, sacrifice and the lengths one would go to for the people they care about.
With its atmospheric setting and imagery, simple prose and elements of magical realism, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is an engaging and thought-provoking read. Though the occasional dispassionate tone and the repetitiveness in the text did bother me slightly, overall I did enjoy the read and look forward to reading the next installment in this series.
“At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present does not change. So it raises the question: just what is the point of that chair?
But Kazu still goes on believing that, no matter what difficulties people face, they will always have the strength to overcome them. It just takes heart. And if the chair can change someone’s heart, it clearly has its purpose.” (