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Mathilde Tamae-Bouhon

    Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Tales from the Cafe
    Je reviendrai avec la pluie
    Bloom
    • Bloom

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band, if he can just convince his dad, Nikos, to let him quit their struggling family bakery. Despite loving it as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away his days over rising doughs and hot ovens. But in the midst of interviewing candidates for his replacement, Ari meets Hector, an easy-going guy who loves baking as much as Ari wants to escape it. As they become closer over batches of breads, love begins to bloom� that is, if Ari doesn't ruin everything.Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, where the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.

      Bloom
      3.9
    • Je reviendrai avec la pluie

      roman

      • 319 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Depuis la mort de sa femme Mio, Takumi vit seul avec son fils Yûji, âgé de six ans. Il gère le quotidien et l'éducation de son fils du mieux qu'il peut. Une seule chose le fait tenir, la promesse faite par Mio qu'elle reviendrait avec la pluie. Le premier jour de la saison humide, cette promesse se réalise. Durant six semaines, le temps se suspend pour Mio et Takumi.

      Je reviendrai avec la pluie
      3.8
    • Summary: In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold... Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

      Before the Coffee Gets Cold. Tales from the Cafe
      3.8