Con quelle parole, intendeva dirle che voleva starle accanto perchè vedeva quanto fosse grande la sua sofferenza.

コーヒーが冷めないうちに Series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The concept of a cafe corner which sends people back in time is a bottomless well of narrative ideas, and Kawaguchi does a wonderful job of continuing to plunge its depths.Perhaps if I read the collection which preceded this, 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold', I would have appreciated or understood more about this book. Standing there together next to the tracks as the trains roared and whooshed past for what seemed like for ever, Kinuyo hugged Kazu tightly and stroked her head until she stopped crying. When I read the original Before the Coffee Gets Cold, I felt that the book was great in spite of its twee and silly rules and conceits.

Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Goodreads Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Goodreads

The audiobook helps me to get the pronunciations of the Japanese names, but the print helps me to see how the stories interconnect. He would knead his clay and dream of the day when he would be an acclaimed potter with his own studio. The novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once wrote, ‘The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie. We get to know more about the café owner and his family and we finally get to know the story of the mysterious woman who occupies the time-travel chair in the café, vacating it only once a day, opening up an opportunity for others to embark on their journeys. In this story, like in the first act of the original novel, we’re being introduced to the cafe’s workers as background noise.Dietro Kazu, in attesa che si alzasse la sbarra, c'era anche una mamma con il figlio e un gruppo di studenti di ritorno a casa. I've slowly grown to really like the staff at the cafe, and the endearing and complicated reasons people want to travel to a different time. It’s an engaging premise, and just as delightfully, if awkwardly, executed as it was in the original. Her mid-length hair was tied back, and over her white shirt with black bow tie she wore a black waistcoat and a sommelier’s apron.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Quotes (Author of Before the Coffee Gets Toshikazu Kawaguchi Quotes (Author of Before the Coffee Gets

Gotaro’s guilt has reached breaking point, and he wants to record a message from his dead friend for her to watch on her wedding day.And you can’t change anything in the past either…although that was confusing because the time traveler would converse with a person in the past and that person would talk back to the time traveler (isn’t that changing things…for the person in the past?