Before the Coffee gets Cold

If you could go back, who would you want to meet? That is the burning question and main theme of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s bestselling novel Before the Coffee gets Cold. In an old basement cafe in Tokyo, one can magically go back in or forward to any point in time. However, several rules must be followed:…

Therese Raquin

When it was first serialized in 1867, Emile Zola’s novel Therese Raquin was considered scandalous and “putrid” by critics, and no wonder, as the novel describes the sordid adulterous and murderous activities of the eponymous character and her lover. A relatively slim novel, the story starts with Therese’s strange circumstances, raised by her aunt as…