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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

作者:Kawaguchi, Toshikazu

出版社:Picador

出版日期:2023.10.02

ISBN:9781529029581

書號:20301613

裝訂:平裝

定價:$495

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洛杉磯時報暢銷書

 

如果可以回到過去,你想見到誰?

 

隱身在東京小巷,一座神秘的咖啡館,百年來持續推出職人精心沖泡的咖啡。人們流傳著,這間店有著神奇的魔法——可以讓你回到過去,見到想見的人。

 

在一個夏天,四名顧客拜訪咖啡店,他們渴求那不可多得的願望——重返過去的時光。

 

然而,時空旅行並不容易,有許多規矩必須遵守:

 

1.就算回到過去,也無法見到不曾來過這家咖啡店的人。

2.回到過去之後無論如何努力,也不能改變現實。

3.神秘的座位有人,必須等到那個人離席時才能去坐。

4.即使回到過去,也不能從座位上離開。

5.回到過去的時間,只從咖啡倒進杯子開始,到咖啡冷卻為止。

 

他們的願望——面對曾經拋棄自己的人;收到罹患阿茲海默症的丈夫來信;最後一次見到姊妹;見見未曾謀面的女兒——在咖啡的微溫中醞釀,在咖啡冷掉之前,等待奇蹟。

 

如果是你,也有不惜一切,想回到過去見一面的人嗎?

 
 
The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.

Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’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 Alzheimer's
  • see their sister one last time, and
  • meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
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Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?
 
 
作者介紹
TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He has produced, directed and written for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. His works as a playwright include COUPLESunset Song and family time. His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan.