Before the Coffee Gets Cold

hardcover, 240 pages

Published Nov. 17, 2020 by Hanover Square Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-335-43099-1

(1 review)

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 man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to 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 …

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 man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to 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?

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Quike D-B reviewed Antes de que se enfríe el café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (コーヒーが冷めないうちに, #1)

Review of 'Antes de que se enfríe el café' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Una interesante y bonita historia sobre las relaciones y sobre los viajes en el tiempo. ¿De qué te sirve viajar al pasado si tienes que cumplir unas estrictas reglas como que solamente podrás ver a alguien que ya haya estado allí, que no podrás moverte de la silla, que podrás estar solamente el tiempo que tarde el café en enfriarse o que hagas lo que hagas el presente no cambiará? No ha estado mal.