![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The time traveler should drink up a cup of coffee placed before him/her before it goes cold and There is a time limit attached to the time travel itself.The time traveler cannot move from the seat that he is she is perched on throughout the duration of the time travel.The time traveler must occupy a particular seat that takes him or her into the past or future.The present cannot be changed irrespective of what the time traveler does after going back in time.The time traveler, cannot meet people who haven’t visited the café.The quintuple set of problematic rules go something like this: However, a set of seemingly ridiculous rules prevent the Café from being flocked to by intrepid and eager customers wanting to either go back or surge forward in time. Small in size and smaller in glitz and razzmatazz, Funiculi Funicula is famous for an Urban Legend attached to it. Kei and Nagare Tokita are owners of an ordinary, unassuming and non-decrepit basement café. The novel concept of time travel is just a peripheral accoutrement to the primary objective of human sentiment and demonstrativeness. An impeccably crafted work, “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” is a paean to love, fortitude, courage and guilt. “Drink the coffee before it goes cold.” With these words of warning, the waitress at Café Funiculi Funicula, Kazu Tokita sends her customer on a tryst with the past, in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s powerfully emotional and introspective novel. ![]()
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