Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, published by Pan Macmillan in 2019, is a literary work that invites readers into a unique Japanese cafe where patrons can travel back in time. This edition, comprising 213 pages, presents a narrative that revolves around four visitors who seek to reconnect with loved ones through the cafe’s extraordinary time-traveling offer. Each character faces their own emotional journey, exploring themes of love, loss, and the desire for closure.
Readers will find a blend of fantasy and magical realism as they delve into the lives of these characters, each hoping to confront their pasts in meaningful ways. The story unfolds in a cozy Tokyo setting, emphasizing the significance of human connections and the bittersweet nature of time. With elements of city life and the complexities of relationships, this book offers a reflective exploration of what it means to cherish moments with those we hold dear.
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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. . . ‘
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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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