Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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- Bog, hardback
- Engelsk
- 224 sider
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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!
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal224
- Udgivelsesdato03-10-2023
- ISBN139781035032280
- Forlag Picador
- Målgruppe18+ år
- FormatHardback
Størrelse og vægt
10 cm
Anmeldelser
Katrine H 19/12/2023
Dette er min mest anbefalede bog i år. Karaktererne er smukt udformet, og deres kampe med deres fortid og fremtid, smitter af på læseren og derfor vækker en række følelser, og tanker. Skrivestilen fanger øjeblikkets essens med levende beskrivelser og en snert af poetisk finesse, uden at det forstyrrer historien.
Mathilde A 25/08/2022
Sød, underholdende fortælling. Sjov præmis.
Anonym 15/04/2022
Denne bog er FANTASTISK! Den er delt op i 4 kapitler, der hver især omhandler kunderne på den lille café hvor man kan rejse i tiden. Den er skrevet supergodt, og den er virkelig en page-turner! Det er fantastisk, hvordan man bliver indledt i fortællingen i det første kapitel. Og hvordan du derefter fortsætter med den samme historie, men fra forskellige perspektiver. Bogen er virkelig hyggelig (og spændende), og den har en god afrundende slutning. En fuldkommen fantastisk læseoplevelse, som man ikke må gå glip af!
Virginia O 26/11/2021
Love love love this book! It is the story of a cafe in a small alley in Tokyo. It's named Funiculi Funicula after a Neapolitan song. In this cafe, the visitors can go back in time. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat in the café, and they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold. It's an intriguing story and easy to get through.
Anonym 24/01/2021
The ending was really bad in my opinion- the whole last chapter was way too conservative and stupid.
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