The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
In a small 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.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we 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, 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 cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Continue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, and Before We Say Goodbye.
*Pre-order Book 5, Before We Forget Kindness, now!*
© 2019 Picador (Audiobook): 9781529029604
Translators: Geoffrey Trousselot
Release date
Audiobook: 19 September 2019
The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
In a small 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.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we 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, 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 cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Continue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, and Before We Say Goodbye.
*Pre-order Book 5, Before We Forget Kindness, now!*
© 2019 Picador (Audiobook): 9781529029604
Translators: Geoffrey Trousselot
Release date
Audiobook: 19 September 2019
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Anh Tah
22 Feb 2023
4 beautiful short stories. Looking forward to reading the next installment.
Sybil
29 Aug 2021
Makes you wonder "when" you'd go back to or from given the chance. I want to know the back story of the ghost.Narrator's voice is soothing too.
Delia
27 Nov 2023
super :") names take a while to get used to but the overall gist of the story is sooo good
Arel
8 Jan 2024
What a powerful story on the idea of moving on!!
Nancy
1 Jan 2024
I am glad I used the audio book to listen. It is touching indeed..I love the voice of the narrator.
破绽
2 Nov 2021
i canno t find the Read button
Tania
12 Aug 2023
Not my cup of tea, but the whole book’s about coffee anyway.
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