The first book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Now as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, 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? 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 customers 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 cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, 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 . . . Continue the heartwarming series with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness - all out now!
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
The first book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Now as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, 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? 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 customers 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 cafe's time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, 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 . . . Continue the heartwarming series with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness - all out now!
Aktuelle Rezensionen(49)
Rezension von Amy CelinI cryed! that's the Mist of IT in every chapter i cryed and that proves that ITS such a good book and the Charakters are amazing and i Loved Reading IT!
Rezension von Laura EngelmannSoo good really changed my mind ….
Rezension von Ivy FernBefore the coffee gets cold is a really beautiful novel that will have you in tears in some chapters. The changes in characters are meaningful and really convey a beautiful story. The premise is a little strange at first, because the idea is that you can time travel but nothing will change when you come back to the present and you can only stay until the coffee gets cold. My biggest issue with the book was the first chapter. It feels so disconnected from the other chapters that it’s almost surreal. It’s almost silly to start with a chapter about a woman wanting to go visit her ex boyfriend and immediately go to a chapter about a wife visiting her husband whose Alzheimer’s are making him forget her… Alas, the pros outweighed the cons for sure, so 5 stars.
Rezension von DzenetaHab geheult.
Rezension von LeaWar leider nicht mein cup of coffee. Die Grundidee des Buches hat mir eigentlich gut gefallen, die Umsetzung jedoch nicht. Auch wenn jede der vier Kurzgeschichten einen rührenden Kern hatte, haben sich die ersten 2/3 jeder Story wie Gummi gezogen, bevor es endlich zur Sache ging. Die letzte Kurzgeschichte fand ich noch am interessantesten, dennoch wurde meiner Meinung nach viel zu viel über Banalitäten geschrieben, sodass es mich die meiste Zeit langweilte. Außerdem kamen ziemlich viele Figuren vor, bei deren Namen man schnell durcheinander kam - und trotzdem gab es zu keiner der Figuren einen tiefgründigen Einblick. Vieles wurde einfach nur sehr oberflächlich gehalten, weswegen es mir schwerfiel, eine Bindung zu den Charakteren aufzubauen oder die Handlung fesselnd zu finden. Der Schreibstil konnte leider auch nichts herausholen. Er war einfach gehalten, was definitiv dem Verständnis half, doch das war‘s auch schon. Dennoch bereue ich es nicht, das Buch gelesen zu haben, denn trotz meiner Kritikpunkte wollte ich wissen, wie die Geschichten ausgingen und das Ende hatte mich nicht enttäuscht.