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Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café 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 café's time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, 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 café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold ... Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story 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?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335430991 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 272 pages ; 19 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Japan as Coffee ga samenai uchini by Sunmark Publishing Inc., Tokyo, Japan in 2015. |
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| Subject: | Coffeehouses > Japan > Tokyo > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Time travel > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Magic realist fiction. Time-travel fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Kawag | 31681010423549 | FICTION | Reshelving | - |
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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 coffeeâthe 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 isnât 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 Kawaguchiâs 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:Â- Tales from the Cafe
- Before Your Memory Fades
- Before We Say Goodbye
- Before We Forget Kindness
