In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors to the shop, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’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, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. This coffee shop also offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. The coffee-making process is described with considerable sensory detail. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving meticulously brewed coffee for over one hundred years. A cast of characters who pass in and out to the sonorous clank of the door ringer… clang-dong… reminiscent perhaps of a funicular motion, in and out, up and down. Translated by Geoffrey TrousselotĪ magical mystery novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi set in a basement cafe named the Funiculi Funicula which of course is the title of a Neapolitan song to commemorate the opening of the first funicular railway on Mount Vesuvius. Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, poignant novel set in TOKYOīefore The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, poignant novel set in Tokyo.
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