Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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If you could go back in time, 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.…
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This book was addictive. A curious café with time travel. But this isn’t science fiction but rather a heartfelt and tender exploration of the self, human relations, and understanding. Yet this is less science fiction and more a heartfelt and tender exploration of the self, human relations, and understanding.
Kawaguchi takes us on a journey of redemption, loss, joy, despair, reconciliation, sorrow, acceptance, grief, and love with his simple and touching story that pulls you into its orbit and reaches deep inside.
This is one of those rare books that is both pleasing and improving and does so before the…
This book is a collection of small, powerful but sentimental stories around serious and personal themes that will tug at your heartstrings. Each story left me wanting more as the characters are forced to wrap up their quick journey into the past before their coffee gets cold. The sense of longing, loss, nostalgia, and community are central themes of this book, and it certainly made me reminisce about people and memories dear to my heart.
From Ash's list on nostalgic stories set in Japan.
There are some offbeat reasons I picked this book, and one is that if you’re around the Indian Summer age you might have got into a reading rut, and it’s an intriguing rut-breaker, nicely translated but evoking a different world and way of thinking. The main reason, though, is, indirectly, baggage, the releasing of. The premise of the novel allows patrons of the café to go back in time to a previous meeting, and say what they wish they’d said at the time. It won’t change events, and they can stay only until their coffee in real time gets cold.…
From E.J.'s list on getting older with style and panache.
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