Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator

Narrated by: Arina Ii

The first book in the multi-million copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, 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 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, 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 . . .

‘This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . '
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Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness.

©2019 Toshikazu Kawaguchi (P)2019 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

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.

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

A beautifully clever and heart-warming read

An interesting concept, the intricate stories are cleverly woven together through characters who enter the unique cafe at the heart of the novel.