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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Tales from the Café #1
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Cover Art for 9781035032280, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
ISBN: 9781035032280
Publisher: Picador
Published: 3 October, 2023
Format: Hardcover
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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. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we 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 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? This limited hardback edition comes with beautiful endpapers and sprayed edges.

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