Toshikazu Kawaguchi 3 Books Collection Set [Before the Coffee Gets Cold; Tales from the Cafe & Before Your Memory Fades]

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I absolutely hate the trope of "woman keeps pregnancy knowing it will kill her because she wants a baby". In the end I feel would work fine as a TV series (with hopefully a more progressive messaging at its core) but failed as a book. The hook for this book is certainly the time travel aspect, the mechanics of which falls apart under careful scrutiny, sure, but this isn’t hard scifi and ultimately it serves as an engaging and charming plot vessel to look at interpersonal relationships.

Time travel is at the heart of this series, set in a peculiar bijou back-street Tokyo cafe, where a cup of coffee offers more than just a caffeine buzz, and the opportunity to go back in time is open to anyone who can follow the strange set of rules. In addition, the conversations between the time travellers and those they want to see are the key to the book, and the novel’s origins as a play are clear here, with everything else there to support these pivotal scenes. Much of what I found annoying could fill a role as stage directions in a performance piece, but it really jars in a novel.For months upon months, I've eyed this book, wanting to dive into its story, and, now, I'm so glad that I did.

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another heartfelt story of lost souls hoping to take advantage of the cafe's time-travelling offer.

Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition. The fact that there time travellers must abide by a number of rules gets mentioned maybe ten times in the first section of the book, and the rules themselves get repeated so often that they become mantra-like. This is the fourth and latest book with Toshikazu Kawaguchi inviting us back once more to Cafe Funiculi Funicula to meet four new visitors with four intriguing time-travelling stories, including a man who lived without regret until his wife was brain damaged, realising he regretted never telling her how she made him feel, and a woman who couldn’t answer a proposal.