8 februarie 2026

Book Review: Before the coffe gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi


I want to tell about the How I discover the Toshikazu Kawaguci,  my soul wanted to read something intersting and new. In which to feel free, and I saw in bookshop " Before  the coffee gets cold",  by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, my soul told to buy it. You will enjoying to read this book. 
 That's right, when I started reading it, every page fascinated me as I read it. I started to like Japanese authors. Another author came to my collection of favorite authors. While I was reading, I couldn't tear myself away from the book. 
The author  was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly  produced, directed and wrote  for the  theatrical  group  Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works  include Couple, Sunset Song, and family Time. The novel  Before the coffe gets cold is adapted from a 1110  Productions  play Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami  Drama Festival  grand  prize. It was followed by Tales from the cafe, Before your memory fades and Before we say goodbye.
Before the Coffe Gets Cold is a 2015 novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. It tells the story of a cafe in Tokyo that allows its customers to travel back in time, as long as they return before their coffee gets cold. The story orginally began as a play in 2010, before being adapted into a novel in 2015. It was translated into English by Geoffrey Trousselot and published in Britain  by Picador in September 2019.
In a small back  alley in Tokyo there is a cafe  which  has been  serving  carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its costumers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.
In Before the coffee gets cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping  to make use of the man who left them, recieve a letter from their husband whose  memory has begun  to fade, see their sister  one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
But 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..
 The author is beautiful, moving story  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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