Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Ratings: 9/10
The books are a compilation of heartwarming stories. These are tales from the customers of Cafe Funiculi Funicula, a 100-year-old café that would let its customers travel to the past, or is it just to the past? The gist, they should come back before their coffee gets cold.
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I love how even short the books are (around 200 pages) all the characters are well developed. And we are talking about more than 5 people per book here. The setting is just the café but it seems like there are so many places you have been to.
The whole story is magical without the laboriousness of a magical world. It is even a present setting and everyone knows what the café can do/offer to its patron.
I read the second book in one sitting (4.5 hours). It consists of touching narratives of people who still wanted to go back to the past. I love the intertwined chronicles of the customers. Here, the café was given a more detailed description. It is telling us more about the main characters which are the owner/s and staff and their story plus it deepens the secrets of the café.
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It’s been a while that I had a good cry reading a book and this is one of those books that will surely touch your heart.
Going to the past or future would not change a thing even if how hard you try. But, is it really that way?
Also, there is a 2018 movie adaptation of the book titled “Cafe Funiculi Funicula” you’re welcome 🙂
Book Summary
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-traveling offer.
* To confront the man who left them,
* To receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early-onset Alzheimer’s,
* To see their sister one last time,
* To meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula’s time-traveling offer.
* The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago
* The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral
* The man who traveled to see the girl who he could not marry
* The old detective who never gave his wife that gift.
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