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Ladataan... Before the coffee gets cold : tales from the café (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2015; vuoden 2020 painos)Tekijä: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I thought this was a cute little read an a enjoyable story. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I didn't not listen to others. I thought it would be a more though provoking story but I didn't get that when I read it. Another thing I felt is that this book suffers from the translation. I feel that some of the metaphors that where in Japanese probably didn't get conveyed over in English. Overall, I would still find myself recommending this book to others. This book was fine. It read more like a play in my head, but I believe it *was* a play before a book ... and the setting and characters just lend themselves more to that. I'm sure some of the emotional and dramatic stuff is lost in the translation and cultural differences (translated from Japanese). But overall it's still a fun little read with an interesting premise and you get to read about some interesting characters. In Tokyo, there is a cafe with a chair that has the ability to transport someone who sits in it through time. You can't change the past while you're there, but you can talk to people who are (or were, or will be) in the cafe at the time, giving at least a few people the opportunity to revisit certain moments, or conversations, or loved ones. It's a fantastic premise, packed with possibilities for both whimsy and real emotional punch, and I'd seen the novel described as both moving and charming, so I was hoping for something rather lovely. But, boy, did it not live up to expectations. The writing was just... Well, look. Quite possibly the translation from Japanese did it a bit of a disservice, and maybe differences in cultural expectations for pacing and such don't help, either, but even after making allowances for all of that, the writing is just... not good? It's incredibly repetitive -- we're told the not-actually-very-complicated rules about the time-traveling at length probably nine different times in the course of 272 small pages -- plus it's almost exclusively telling us things it should be showing us, and not even doing that especially well. The specific situations of the characters and the reasons they want to make use of the time travel chair should actually be really affecting, but the characters are so unbelievable and impossible to sympathize with that, for me at least, it all just falls flat. At least it's a quick read. And I still think it's a fantastic premise. But I find this novel's popularity befuddling. What a weird and interesting book! I got a little lost in all the names, but I could usually put it together who the people were, it just took me a minute. But I love all the weird rules about traveling and that you actually can. The message in the book was great, just about how you can't change the present, but how you look at it or your point of view can change the future. It was such a quirky book and had me laughing at points. I really enjoyed this book. It's not like a book you can't put down, but I also think this will stick with me for a little while and the weird rules and the traveling and the ghost who sits in the seat and she has to get up to go to the bathroom. When she started pouring cup after cup of coffee, so then the ghost would have to go to the bathroom, I was laughing!
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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I felt disappointed that I was left with many unanswered questions.
For example, we didn’t get an answer/a story telling us about the Ghost Lady! Who is she? How she became the Ghost? What was her story that made her not finishing her coffee before it got cold?
"Before the Coffee Gets Cold" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a novel that revolves around time travel and the stories of individuals who visit a mysterious café.
Here are ten potential lessons or themes that readers might take away from the book:
1. The Fragility of Time:
2. Value of Connection:
3. Consequences of Actions:
4. Appreciation for the Present:
5. Regret and Redemption:
6. The Power of Communication:
7. Embracing Change:
8. Understanding Others' Perspectives:
9. Gratitude for Second Chances:
10. Living Authentically: ( )