[Critique] “The coffee of time regained”, Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Second volume, just as charming as the previous one (While the coffee is still hot2021), of this delicate trilogy by playwright and novelist Toshikazu Kawaguchi, The coffee of time regained transports us once again to this mysterious café in Tokyo, where we can travel to the past and, more rarely, to the future, without affecting the present. In addition to meeting four new customers, who will take moving journeys through time, we find the loyal employees of the Funiculi Funicula, including the impassive Kazu. “Her fluid gestures were imbued with a grace that nothing and no one could alter, as if she were engaged in some solemn ritual. If from one chapter to another, the author repeats himself by delivering the same descriptions of the café, its rules and its regulars, as if the chapters formed news published independently, in the watermark, he embroiders destiny there. of Kazu and reveals the link that unites him to the ghost of the lady in white.

A coffee of time rediscovered

★★★

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated by Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon, Albin Michel, Paris, 2022, 224 pages

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