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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Time-travel cafe revisits life's critical choices.

If you've ever yearned to turn back the clock, even just for the chance to savor a missed moment or amend a regret, "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" will speak to you. It's a heartwarming narrative bustling with human connections, regrets, and the magic of second chances, all set against the backdrop of a quaint Tokyo café. This novel might just inspire you to consider what you'd do if you had the chance to revisit a pivotal moment, all while reminding you that the present is just as full of possibility.

  • 本屋大賞 Nominee (2017)
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ISBN: 9781335430991
Authors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Date of Publication: 2020-11-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Magical Realism, Time Travel
Goodreads rating: 3.65
(rated by 734748 readers)

Description

If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?
 

Time-travel cafe revisits life's critical choices.

If you've ever yearned to turn back the clock, even just for the chance to savor a missed moment or amend a regret, "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" will speak to you. It's a heartwarming narrative bustling with human connections, regrets, and the magic of second chances, all set against the backdrop of a quaint Tokyo café. This novel might just inspire you to consider what you'd do if you had the chance to revisit a pivotal moment, all while reminding you that the present is just as full of possibility.

  • 本屋大賞 Nominee (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.