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Before We Forget Kindness
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Related to this series)
- Author
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrator
- Kevin Shen
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 19 September 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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The fifth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
Curl up with the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the cosy Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:
- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married
- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one
- A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents
- A wife holding a child with no name . . .
They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.
Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to find closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.
‘I don’t want it to ever end. Emotional, heart-warming, hopeful’
- @samzreadsbooks on Instagram
Catch up on the rest of the series set in the charming Tokyo cafe, with Before the coffee gets cold, Tales from the cafe, Before your memory fades, Before we say goodbye and Before I knew I loved you.
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Heartwarming, whimsical . . . offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic
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Details
- Author
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrator
- Kevin Shen
- Duration
- 5 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035046270
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Magical realism, Fiction in translation, Speculative fiction, Science fiction: time travel / time slip, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: sense of place, Narrative theme: death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
The fifth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.Curl up with the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the cosy Tokyo café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests:- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married- A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one- A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents- A wife holding a child with no name . . .They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold.Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to find closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.‘I don’t want it to ever end. Emotional, heart-warming, hopeful’- @samzreadsbooks on InstagramCatch up on the rest of the series set in the charming Tokyo cafe, with Before the coffee gets cold, Tales from the cafe, Before your memory fades, Before we say goodbye and Before I knew I loved you.
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