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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
By Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Fiction, Magical Realism, Literary, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fantasy, Contemporary | 272 pages
2 recommendations
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If you could go back in time, 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?
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*
*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back in time, 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?
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
- Tales from the Cafe
- Before Your Memory Fades
- Before We Say Goodbye
- And the upcoming BEFORE WE FORGET KINDESS
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"If you were given an opportunity to visit the past, would you? Set in a mysterious café in Tokyo, this captivating and thought-provoking book explores the idea of finding closure with your past. This isn't your average time-travel novel—there are many quirky rules that must be followed! I just wish this café existed in real life...
"At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.""
"At the end of the day, whether one returns to the past or travels to the future, the present doesn't change.""
