作者简介

Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include "COUPLE", "Sunset Song", and "Family Time". The novel "Before the Coffe Gets Cold" is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

内容简介

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 – translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot – 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?


Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include "COUPLE", "Sunset Song", and "Family Time". The novel "Before the Coffe Gets Cold" is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

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  • 涼宮春日
    看了书更感觉电影改编得真的好好。小说也很不错。10-13
  • 王小猫可爱多
    1. 相比于我们的作家总喜欢宏达的叙事,亦或者描写宏伟历史中小人物的故事,日本作家们的写作真的是细枝末节到个人生活的方方面面。这一点是不是一种民族性格特征呢?2. 穿越时间的写作载体运用实在是太老套了,我个人觉得没有太多新意,而从人物性格的刻画中真的是辨识度不高,似乎每个人性格都差不多,而且都特别磨磨唧唧扭扭捏捏,永远是在一种优柔寡断的状态,我想有的人会喜欢吧,但我读着实在着急且来气。 3. 主题也比较传统,爱情,亲情,手足情,没有什么特别值得期待的地方。4. 朋友送我的礼物,所以要为友情加一颗星。:)02-15
  • 深情的艾老师
    Men were always trying to pick her up and so she had developed a technique for dealing with this.11-08
  • kolal84
    很老套的因为遗憾而穿越时间的故事 澳洲的学生推荐的 只看了第一个爱人的故事 弃了12-03
  • afterglow
    Past, present and future are going on at the same time 07-05

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