Before the Coffee Gets Cold 章诒和 A growing inability to see

A growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges

who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering

upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town

在探討湯亭亭、冰心、徐志摩等譽滿全球的作家之外，新增章節〈心心相報〉可謂書林版《文心無界》的出新之處。作者在此章研究伍慧明的《孤兒散仔》與哈金的《莫斯科回來的女人》，追溯作家與作品主人翁的人生軌跡，從時代陰霾與個體差異中辨析獨特的身分、特質、使命與理想，解讀語言與藝術對人生及人格的影響。作者在回應趙健秀提出的亞洲英雄傳統的同時，響應湯亭亭提筆為劍、為蒙受不平之人「報仇」（report a crime）之志，身體力行地向世界昭示，以「文」報怨是仁者唯一值得效仿的英雄主義。

Before the Coffee Gets Cold 章诒和 A growing inability to see*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a caf that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffeethe chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer,