Tošikazu Kawaguči Livres

Dans une petite ruelle de Tokyo se trouve Funiculi Funicula, un petit établissement au sujet duquel circulent mille légendes. On raconte notamment qu'en y dégustant un délicieux café, on peut retourner dans le passé. Mais ce voyage comporte des règles : il ne changera pas le présent et dure tant que le café est encore chaud. Quatre femmes vont vivre cette singulière expérience. Vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires au Japon, traduit dans plus de trente pays, le roman de Toshikazu Kawaguchi a touché les lecteurs du monde entier.

Set in a unique Tokyo cafe, this installment of the 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series introduces new customers who seek to travel back in time. Each character brings their own story and motivations, exploring themes of love, regret, and the impact of choices. The cafe's magical ability to allow time travel under specific conditions adds depth to their journeys, inviting readers to reflect on the significance of moments in life.

The fourth novel in the sensational 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series featuring cafe regulars, with the same time-travelling offer, back in the Tokyo cafe – if customers follow the rules.

Summary: 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 lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, 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 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?

Historie o pożegnaniach, rozstaniach i magicznej kawiarni Funiculi Funicula, którą otacza aura tajemnicy. Bywalcy tej kawiarni doskonale wiedzą o możliwości odbycia niezwykłej podróże w czasie, dzięki podawanej tu kawie. Aby przenieść się do przeszłości, trzeba podjąć ryzyko i trzymać się ścisłych zasad. Najważniejsza z nich to konieczność powrotu do teraźniejszości, zanim wystygnie kawa.

Třetí z řady magicko-realistických příběhů, jejichž ohniskem se stává podivuhodná kavárna, umožňující cestování v čase. Tokijská kavárna Funiculi funicula není jediným podnikem v Japonsku, kde lze cestovat časem. V kavárně Dona dona ve městě Hakodate, kterou provozuje matka majitele tokijské kavárny Nagareho, je také možné vrátit se do minulosti nebo navštívit budoucnost. Pravidla tu platí stejná: do jiné doby můžete jen na tak dlouho, než vystydne káva. Ani tentokrát čtyři protagonisté realitu změnit nedokážou, mohou ale změnit svůj pohled na život - a tím i vlastní budoucnost. Nakladatelská anotace.