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.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold 9781529029581 Paperback
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Before The Coffee Gets Cold
This has to be one of the worst books I've ever read. In comparison, Kilgore Trout's Venus on The Half Shell is a literary masterpiece. This book has no merit - I can't understand its apparent popularity.
- Authors:
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
- Year Published:
- 2019
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781529029581
- Number of Pages:
- 224
- Publication Date:
- 19/09/2019
- Publisher:
- Pan Macmillan
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Series:
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- SKU:
- 9781529029581