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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
Narrated by: Arina Ii
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The million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?


In a cosy back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe 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.

Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer in order to:
- confront the man who left them
- receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's
- 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 cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

‘This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . '
-@well.read.woman on Instagram


Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness.

©2019 Toshikazu Kawaguchi (P)2019 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd
City Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Science Fiction Time Travel Urban World Literature
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Bittersweet Story • Interesting Concept • Beautifully Written Stories • Unique Time-travel Story
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All the performances were great. At times its gives you goose bumps. But the story line is just ok to through the book.

Can be ignored

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Una leyenda y cuatro historias entrecruzadas que nos recuerdan el valor del tiempo y el poder infinito que hay en un solo momento.

Lindo mensaje.

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This book is one of the best I’ve ever read. It touches your soul, and that’s it.

The best book I’ve ever read.

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An interesting concept, the intricate stories are cleverly woven together through characters who enter the unique cafe at the heart of the novel.

A beautifully clever and heart-warming read

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Great read, I loved the simplicity with which difficult ideas are explained and dealt with

The paradox of reality and emotions

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An unusual premise, a bittersweet story. I have a renewed appreciation of using time wisely, saying things when they have to be said, and not letting opportunities escape, after reading this book.

Special

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انه كيف بسط سالفه كبيره زي السفر عبر الزمن
والكتابه كانت بسيطه ودايم تصدمك كيف ترابطت الاحداث

جيدة والله ومتحمس اقرا الباقي من السلسلة

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I am a fan o time travelling stories and this is an interesting and also kind of a unique one.

A little sad byt also heartwarming

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It feels more like a collection of stories with the same topic than an actual novel. I really enjoyed it none the less. The characters are charming and the setting is very well built.

More a collection of stories than a novel

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A good book but a bit boring you go though it quickly. Nothing stood out for me didn’t live up to the hype

Meh

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