Mamma, mi dispiace", disse il bambino. Era una semplice conversazione tra madre e figlio, niente di che. Kazu si girò a guardarli, e poi sussurrando "Mamma..." si avviò verso il passaggio a livello, quasi attirata da un polo magnetico. This is your typical time travel in a Japanese coffee shop novel this is not a spoiler, the kind of novel in which this was a spoiler would be a bit more fun I think , apparently it is the sequel to a similarly named earlier novel which I have never read and which I don't plan to read but then again I didn't plan to read this either, so I just can't tell. Nevertheless, instead of being disgusted by his appearance, Shuichi looked genuinely pleased to have met him again. He invited Gohtaro into the cafe, and after hearing what happened, proposed: ‘Come and work at my diner.’ of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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The changes in the café are satisfying.While reading this book,you will feel that you are a part of the character’s happiness and sorrow.Kazu’s life is more elaborately depicted here too. The present hadn’t changed—but those two people had. Both Kohtake and Hirai returned to the present with a changed heart.” If it is not possible to change the present no matter how hard you try while in the past, then why bother?”I find the characters not as engaging and interesting even though their stories sound interesting enough. Maybe their stories do not do much for me personally. The novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky once wrote, ‘The most difficult thing in life is to live and not lie.’ There is no greater suffering than that of a parent who is unable to save their own child who wants to die.”

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Some weeks he had as little as one thousand yen to spend. Everyone else his age had a proper job and was doing things that adults did, like falling in love and buying new cars. But Yukio was in front of the kiln getting covered in smoke and soot. He would knead his clay and dream of the day when he would be an acclaimed potter with his own studio.”

This time we follow a man wanting to visit an old friend who died in a car crash 22 years ago, a detective wanting to give his wife the birthday gift he was never able to give, a son wanting to see his departed mother one last time and a dying man wanting to see the girl he could never marry. Connecting them all are the staff of the cafe, a small family unit in themselves. But these novels, quite honestly, wouldn’t be the same without them. This campy, twee, hyperbolic k-drama tone helps to alleviate some of the sorrow that many cafe tales often leave lingering when they’re over. One issue as with the first book is that the author seems to think the readers have short term memory and tends to remind us time and again about the rules of the cafe.

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It wasn’t that he was dissatisfied with his ordinary life, or was just that from somewhere in his heart he heard, I want to find work that is worth spending a lifetime on. ”Had the woman read his mind just now? Surely a more conventional thing to say in that situation would be, Would you like to come in? Please feel welcome. There were many times when he felt like giving up, filled with doubt about his talent. He was in his thirties and couldn’t see how he could go on working in casual jobs.” In 2018, the novel was adapted into the film Cafe Funiculi Funicula, starring Kasumi Arimura. [8] [9] Before the Coffee Gets Cold' review: A chance to redo the past". CSMonitor.com . Retrieved 2021-09-08.