02284nam a22003857a 4500 21351796 KE 20251103161656.0 251030b my ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2019401489 bnb GBB9B6871 Uk 019453969 9781529029581 (paperback) (OCoLC)1090686340 KE eng KE rda 23 895.636 895.636 KAW 2019 Kawaguchi, Toshikazu 1971 author Before the coffee gets cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot London Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan 2019 ©2019 213 pages 20 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume Originally published in Japan as Coffee ga samenai uchini by Sunmark Publishing Inc., Tokyo, Japan in 2015 The lovers -- Husband and wife -- The sisters -- Mother and child "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 lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has begun to fade, see their sister one last time, and 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?" Coffeehouses Fiction Japan Tokyo Time travel Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction lcgft Fiction Trousselot, Geoffrey translator ddc BOK 0 12277 12277 0 0 ddc 0 0 KEM KEM 2025-10-30 3 895.636 KAW (2019) 1000013468 2026-06-22 2026-05-21 11:04:16 2026-05-21 2025-10-30 BOK