Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
A Novel

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series #1

Narrator: Arina Ii

Unabridged: 6 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/17/2020


Synopsis

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*

*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series

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 coffee—the 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 isn’t 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. 

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 themreceive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer'ssee their sister one last time, andmeet the daughter they never got the chance to know.Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s 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: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

About Toshikazu Kawaguchi

TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He has produced, directed and written for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song and family time. His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. This is his debut as an author. Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on November 16, 2023

This was pretty lovely. At times, it was very lovely. My very favorite things are lovely things, and simple, wonderful magical realism is my favorite hard-to-find-done-well genre, and for a while it seemed like this could qualify as being both of those things. But then...a severe damper arrives. My pa......more

Goodreads review by lisa (fc hollywood's version) on July 13, 2024

if "right where you left me" was a happy song......more

Goodreads review by Ayman on September 13, 2022

this was a beautiful and deep story…now why do i feel this 20 pound weight on my chest of damaging and immobilizing sadness?!?......more

Goodreads review by Emily on June 01, 2022

People that can go back in time in a coffee shop? Sign me in! There are some strict rules but the character driven stories were interesting. I'm not too sure what to rate this book so it might change but... 3.5? (view spoiler)[The only story I didn't care about was the last one. I absolutely hate the trope of "woma (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on February 03, 2023

Summary This is a beautifully written novel happening inside a retro cafe where time travel is possible. It has four different stories interwoven together with characters who have their individual existence yet perfectly complement each other. What I learned from this book 1) The eff......more