Go to the past?

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By Editorial Team Published : 21 Dec 2025 02:32 IST Ee Font size
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Tim travel... entertains everyone, young and old. the subject. That is why the Japanese writer Toshikazu Kawaguchi wrote a series of novels on it. He first wrote a play titled 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold'. Ten years ago, it was turned into a novel with the same name as it received awards and gained wide audience. It was an instant hit. So far five novels have been published under the series. All of them can be read separately, and are more thrilling if read in a row. All the conditions for time travel are in the first book. It is a must read as the stories are based on them.

It is a small coffee shop in an alley in Tokyo. Three tables, a counter, a back room... the whole story takes place in that little place. Three wall clocks show different times. A ghost sits in a chair in that cafe. If someone sits in it before it goes to the toilet, they can time travel. You can go back in time and meet someone. If not, that person must have visited this cafe in the past. Come back to the present within an hour, before the coffee is completely cold. A young woman named Fumiko had a fight with her boyfriend in the same cafe a week ago. He wants to leave her and go to America for a better job. If she gets a chance, Fumiko wants to go back to that day and make amends. She knows about the specialty of that cafe. The story is whether her attempt was successful. Four other customers are also involved in this story. Each is a different story. One wants to find out the whereabouts of a letter written by her husband suffering from Alzheimer's, another wants to meet her angry estranged sister, and yet another wants to travel to the future and talk to her unborn daughter. In 'Tales from the Cafe', a man wants to thank his friend who died twenty years ago. Another old man regrets not giving any gift to his wife during his lifetime. In 'Before Your Memory Fades', a mother and daughter go back in time to save each other. In 'Before We Say Goodbye', a man who suffers after his wife is brain damaged and a young woman who is unable to respond to a marriage proposal are pitiable. In 'Before We Forget Kindness', which was released by Nirudu, all four have different stories. The sixth book 'Before I New I Loved You' with four more stories will come out next year. Memories, people who change, regrets that burn the mind, love that transcends the boundaries of time... There are many aspects to the mind of Guppedanta. Heartwarming human stories. All the stories in these books, which are being translated into many languages and read with interest, tell us that... we can go back to the past but we cannot change it, the future that we can change is our own!

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