Through these two we learn the rules of the time travel element, the first is that nothing you do in the past can affect the present, this means that if Fumiko travels back to the previous week it wouldn’t fix her relationship as Goro is already in America. We also meet a regular at the café, Yaeko Hirai and the waitress, Kazu Tokita. The legend claims that the café allows people to travel back in time and Fumiko wants to travel back to the previous week in order to fix things with Goro.
However, a week after she returns to this mysterious café which is part of an urban legend. This wouldn’t seem like too big of a deal until we learn that Fumiko is extremely work focused herself and I felt was most likely neglectful of Goro during their relationship. The Lovers introduces us to Fumiko Kiyokawa and Goro Katada, a couple who break up as he is going to America for a job. I think I will discuss each part separately and the wrap the review up with my thoughts on the book as a whole and whether I will be continuing to the other books in this series. From what I can gather the novel is going to be following for different customers of the café which is referenced by its four parts: The Lovers, Husband and Wife, The Sisters and Mother and Child.
Review: All I knew about Before the Coffee Gets Cold before I went into it was it featured a time travelling café but with some interesting restrictions and I have been trying to read more translated books recently and this seemed like a good place to start.
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