From Goodreads
What would you change if you could go back in time?
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café 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 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.
But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
My thoughts
I grabbed a copy of this after spotting that friends online had been reading it. This book is split into 4 parts or stories that are interlinked and is translated from Japanese.
This was an unusual read that's set around a cafe. The story is unusual in so far as it moves you through time. It allows you to travel backwards and forwards whilst being in the cafe. The four parts of the story are all interlinked in some way. What I would give to be able to travel back in time to talk to people that I had lost, but I would struggle to be able to get back in time to the present before the coffee got cold.
If you fancy picking this book up to experience how the Author has dealt with the situation of time travel, but not having too long in the past as you have to return to the present before the coffee gets cold, then grab a copy to see what all the fuss is about.
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