Name: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
ISBN: 9781529029581

Type

Physical Book

Author

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Publisher

Pan Macmillan

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Weight

1.00

ISBN13

9781529029581

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Author) · Pan Macmillan · Paperback

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Synopsis "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?

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi (Osaka, Japan, 1971) is an author and playwright known for his ability to blend magical realism and human sensitivity. Before turning to novels, he was a producer, director, and screenwriter for the Sonic Snail theater group, with notable works like COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. His literary debut, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Plaza & Janés, 2021), based on his award-winning play of the same name at the Suginami Drama Festival, became an international phenomenon, selling over three million copies and achieving a successful film adaptation in Japan.

The series continues with Happiness Fits in a Cup of Coffee (2023) and The First Coffee of the Day (2025), solidifying his evocative style that explores themes such as time, memory, and human relationships. Kawaguchi has captured the attention of readers worldwide with his mix of intimate narrative and universal reflections, establishing himself as an essential voice in contemporary Japanese literature.

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