Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the coffee gets cold
Publisher: Picador
Pages: 213
One word review: Momentous.
Goodreads: 3.69 [Subjected to change]
Did you know?
The story originally began as a play in 2010, before being adapted into a novel in 2015.
Favorite Lines From Book
It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don't trust.
Don't read this book! If you have a weak heart, soft-spoken and most importantly, living a life full of regrets. Because this book is only going to make you feel embarrassed. It's gonna insult you and slap you on the face. Shout at you for missing out on the opportunities, moments, memories of times where you could have been more kind and understanding to others. Oh, this story made me sob like an infant and tears dropping on my couch as I lay there sitting not to make sure my tears drip onto the book.
Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity.
A poignant story about a cafe, a chair, a cup, and the magical coffee that fulfills all the mentioned combinations and transports one to the past or future. Now, the time jump comes with a plethora of restrictions and most importantly you need to drink the coffee before it gets cold. With minimal characters and a magnifying lens to peak into their souls in the form of chapters the readers are taken across time, only inside the cafe and only for a short duration of time.
The visual and auditory information that enters the mind is distorted by experiences, thoughts, circumstances, wild fancies, prejudices, preferences, knowledge, awareness, and countless other workings of the mind.
How philosophical it is? We only live and we only have time before our body gets cold. We stay alive as long as our bodies are warm. And what are going to do with our lives in this short span of time on this planet? The novel tries to answers this question through diverse characters, using them as a mirror to reflect our own lives and stories that we crafted. The stories, every one of them, although mournful always ends on a delightful note making the readers smile even while the tears are flowing down from their eyes.
Bringing you into this world was the only thing that I did for you. Can you forgive me for that?
This book is both a pain and a pleasure. So, if you were to read this book, be prepared to both sob and smile at the same time.
Verdict: Read this book before your body gets cold!
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