Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

If you could go back, 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.

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?

★ “An affecting, deeply immersive journey into the desire to hold onto the past. This wondrous tale will move readers.” —Publishers Weekly

★ “Kawaguchi meets Western tastes with an all-female cast of time travelers. As interest grows internationally to hear the voices of Japanese women, he emphatically renders heroines coping with loss and social expectations.” —Japan Times (Tokyo)

Publisher: ‎ Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition (July 13, 2022)
Language: ‎ English
ISBN-10: ‎ 1432899015
ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1432899011
Item Weight: ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions: ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches