# Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Paperback)

In a small 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 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 - 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 . . . Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving Before the coffee gets cold 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?

## Details

- **Price:** 10.49 GBP
- **Vendor:** Picador
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Booktok, Fantasy

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> Updated: 2026-11-04