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A review by sebby_reads
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.0
Received this book as a gift earlier this month. The story sets in a café in a small back alley of Tokyo. The cafe has been serving carefully brewed coffee and offers its customers a unique experience: a chance to travel back in time. But a visit to the past comes with a set of rules: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold.
Like all other time travel fantasy, you cannot change the past or what had already happened. Yet, if the chances are given, we all would like to go back to certain time, wouldn’t we?
The book explores the classic question we fancy to ask ourselves from time to time—what would you change if you could go back in time—but with four different aspects. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, (1) in order to confront the lover who left them, (2) receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, (3) see their sister one last time, and (4) meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
The second story, Husband and Wife, is the most affecting one and it really tugged my heartstrings. Although time travel stories are told before in many ways, this book has its own uniqueness. It was satisfyingly relishing and I’d rate 3.5 out of 5.
There’s a movie adaptation of this book with the same title. It also looks interesting.
Like all other time travel fantasy, you cannot change the past or what had already happened. Yet, if the chances are given, we all would like to go back to certain time, wouldn’t we?
The book explores the classic question we fancy to ask ourselves from time to time—what would you change if you could go back in time—but with four different aspects. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, (1) in order to confront the lover who left them, (2) receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, (3) see their sister one last time, and (4) meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
The second story, Husband and Wife, is the most affecting one and it really tugged my heartstrings. Although time travel stories are told before in many ways, this book has its own uniqueness. It was satisfyingly relishing and I’d rate 3.5 out of 5.
There’s a movie adaptation of this book with the same title. It also looks interesting.