Before the Coffee Gets Cold

The heart-warming million-copy sensation from Japan

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot

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Picador
05 December 2023

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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?

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Translated by: Geoffrey Trousselot
Imprint: Picador
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 296g
ISBN: 9781035032280
ISBN 10: 1035032287
Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 05 December 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Toshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.