Before the Coffee Gets Cold

ISBN: 9781529029581
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Product Details

Publisher,Picador
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight, 180 g
No. of Pages, 224

What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small 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.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we 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 early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to 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 . . .

 

About the Author

Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.

Customer Reviews

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100% would recommend!

A very wholesome and heartwarming book which I could easily read in one sitting if I had the time. Each chapter is intriguing and keeps me at ease with the pace of the story and the serene background that surrounds the cafe. Wish I could read it for the first time again. Solid 10/10!!!

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Aina A
Heartwarming Story

I like the stories in this book. Very heartwarming and sad at the same time. Make me think back that we should always treasure the people in our life and say thank you and love you always before it's too late.

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MARYAM BINTI ARIFF
BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD

GREAT !! AWESOME!! MUST READ!!

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Manogna Macha

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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YPL
Poignant tales

Enjoyed the stories and sense of starting over with a changed heart or way of thinking.