Forty reprints: two years from the first print, and till on the top of the italian books list.
A wonderful, suggestive best-seller.
The best choice for these difficult times, this little, I would add, shy book, tender, soft, but extremely friendly, with a relaxing cover, where cherries are blooming and a comfy table reassure that situations will be resolved once and for all, written by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Finché il Caffé è Caldo
, is a promise of a good, fantastic reading.
There is in Tokyo, a little café, immersed in the anonymity, where there are several, well defined characters, serving good, delicious food and an extraordinary coffee to their beloved and affectionated customers. It's not important if you visit the café in winter or in a warm summer day, because you will discover that the atmosphere is always fresh, and the place reassuring.
The owner of the café, Nagare, is married with Kei, a frail pregnant girl: another worker is Kazu.
The specialty of this little café is that people can surf in the past or in the future thanks to a special coffeepot, used for serving in a cup common coffee. People in this special café can ask for time-travels through the past or the future, if they request it.
When and why people do search for time-travels in this special café? They try to see if they can discover more of the behavior of a person: another time they want to see their beloved ones when still in healthy conditions, or just, to meet someone who, for a reason or another, they, simply, won't never meet in their existence, or they know that they won't meet anymore at long in this life.
The rules of the café are simples: there is just a little table and chair for this magical ritual where is sat a phantom that it is better to leave alone; you must sit, waiting that the coffee would be served. You must choose a precise moment of your existence that you want to re-live again; the person that you search must be a client of the café, and last rule, the most important one for not to be transformed in a ghost, you must drink the coffe till when warm.
These four stories are moving. There is a lady who waits for answers regarding the health of his husband and a letter...
There is a mother who wants to see the daughter. An experience that she won't never live in her existence...
There is a girl who is left by her beloved boyfriend. Maybe she has been too rude with him: she wants to try to understand much better what happened when a week before they had that last, tragic discussion...
Maybe with the one of the mother and the daughter, the story more moving is the one of the two sisters.
These stories are precious because they pass through knowledge, true, but also, in several cases, clarifications. Sometimes when we speak with other people we don't tell what we want to tell, or just we don't understand well what the other want to tell us. It's a lesson: let's keep open our hearts to the magic of life, to the understanding, to an interpretation of the existence that shouldn't never be an unilateral path, but a path shared with others with clarity. In this way existences will be brilliants, sparkling, singing great harmonic melodies to the universe.
Highly recommended.
Grazie Grzanti for the physical copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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