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Verk av Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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川口俊和
Födelsedag
1971
Kön
male
Nationalitet
Japan
Födelseort
Osaka, Japan

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I love Japanese literature but for some reason, I hesitate to pick this up. Can't say this is now one of my favourites but it did make me cry twice, which is my personal criteria for a 5-star book. In reality, it is impossible to go back to the past or visit the future. Lesson to take away - if you have something to say to someone, say it now. You won't get a second chance.
½
 
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siok | 102 andra recensioner | Mar 16, 2024 |
Love this series and this style of writing.
 
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bookczuk | 24 andra recensioner | Mar 9, 2024 |
Somewhere in Japan, there is a cafe where some say you can time travel. The rules are pretty limiting; you can only do it once, can not change the outcome and the person you want to meet can only be the one who has visited the cafe at some point.
Throughout this novel, we meet 4 characters who will choose to do that, travel through time. Each story is quite different, some better than others. What I didn't like was that all of them were so overly sentimental, but I didn't quite care about the characters (except, perhaps, in the last story).
Clearly, Kawaguchi is a playwright. This reads so much like a play. It is not poorly written, but it just felt very flat.
There was something magical about the atmosphere of this cafe. I could feel as if I were there. Also, the characters all had stories that were sad in one way or the other, but there was something stoic about how they accepted their fate. Not sure whether it is just a cultural difference, but it is something that gave a fresh quality to this book. So many authors don't let their characters grieve.
… (mer)
 
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ZeljanaMaricFerli | 102 andra recensioner | Mar 4, 2024 |
If you enjoyed the first two volumes in this series and want more, then this book will provide that. But if you're looking for more variety, then it's better to look for a different book. While I enjoyed this volume, it was the same formula as the first two books, and that formula is getting old for me. If you're okay with getting the same story told over again with different characters, by all means read this book. It's good at what it does. But I want more variety, so I won't be continuing any further with the series.… (mer)
 
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ca.bookwyrm | 13 andra recensioner | Feb 28, 2024 |

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Verk
15
Medlemmar
4,358
Popularitet
#5,755
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
149
ISBN
92
Språk
17
Favoritmärkt
1

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