Emma Goto
The second book in the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series, which centres around a Japanese cafe which has the unique power to let its visitors go back in time. The original title for this book is “before the secret gets out”, and the short stories in this one mostly involve going back in time to meet a deceased friend or lover.
As the title would suggest, in some of the stories they end up accidentally revealing to the person that they are going to die. It's written from the POV of the time traveller, who has their own struggles, but gosh. Letting someone know they are going to die soon is such a horrible thing to place on someone, right? And I'm surprised this plot point is kind of just skipped over in the stories.
I read this one in Japanese, so for language learners I would say it’s quite good. Since one of the time travelling rules are that you can’t leave the cafe, and the story is mostly dialog, it helps to keep things simple (complex plots are hard enough to keep up with, let alone in another language).
The second book in the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series, which centres around a Japanese cafe which has the unique power to let its visitors go back in time. The original title for this book is “before the secret gets out”, and the short stories in this one mostly involve going back in time to meet a deceased friend or lover.
As the title would suggest, in some of the stories they end up accidentally revealing to the person that they are going to die. It's written from the POV of the time traveller, who has their own struggles, but gosh. Letting someone know they are going to die soon is such a horrible thing to place on someone, right? And I'm surprised this plot point is kind of just skipped over in the stories.
I read this one in Japanese, so for language learners I would say it’s quite good. Since one of the time travelling rules are that you can’t leave the cafe, and the story is mostly dialog, it helps to keep things simple (complex plots are hard enough to keep up with, let alone in another language).