Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 1

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator

Narrated by: Arina Ii

The cosy, heartwarming first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series.

What would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, explores this age-old question . . .

In a cosy 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.

Prepare to 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
- 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 . . .

‘This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . ' - well.read.woman on Instagram

Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness.

**Before I knew I loved you, the sixth book in the series, is available to pre-order now!**

Critic reviews

Heartwarming, whimsical . . . offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic

Can be ignored

All the performances were great. At times its gives you goose bumps. But the story line is just ok to through the book.

Heartwarming

Great stories and the narrator did a great work too. Even if fiction, this book left a great message for life.

Just, puts your head in a spiral, In a good way.

The stories in this book truly had me thinking about them in a million ways. It's fun and cozy, but an emotional rollercoaster at the same time. The minimal connections one chapter makes to the next were very intriguing, but when they are understood later, they are heartbreaking. This is just a brilliant book.

Special

An unusual premise, a bittersweet story. I have a renewed appreciation of using time wisely, saying things when they have to be said, and not letting opportunities escape, after reading this book.

جيدة والله ومتحمس اقرا الباقي من السلسلة

انه كيف بسط سالفه كبيره زي السفر عبر الزمن
والكتابه كانت بسيطه ودايم تصدمك كيف ترابطت الاحداث