What would you change if you could go back in time? n 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, 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 . . .
Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousse lot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

Product Details
Format: Paperback / 224 pages
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1529029589
ISBN-13: 9781529029581
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication date: 19 September 2019
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Reading age: 18 years to up
Dimensions: (L&H) 5.1 x 7.8 inches
Weight: 172g