Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

The first book in the multi-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 .

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