Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- Author Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrator Arina Ii
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date 19 September 2019
- Run Time 6 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction in translation, Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Science fiction: time travel, Speculative fiction.
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The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series.
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores this age-old question . . .
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
- 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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| Author | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
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| Narrator | Arina Ii |
| Duration | 6 hours and 52 minutes |
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| ISBN | 9781529029604 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Genre | Fiction in translation, Magical realism, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Science fiction: time travel, Speculative fiction |
| Collections | Book Club Fiction, Translated Fiction |
| Availability | GB, IE |
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