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Before The Coffee Gets Cold - (Mass-Market)-(Budget-Print)

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Author : Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Condition : New

Binding : Paper Back

Pages : 272

Publisher : Local Books

Language : English

Publication Year : 2021

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?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that 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-traveling 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, 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 . . .

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Author : Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Condition : New

Binding : Paper Back

Pages : 272

Publisher : Local Books

Language : English

Publication Year : 2021

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?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that 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-traveling 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, 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 . . .

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I love this book, the writing is great however, when I got the book the spine was quite damaged and there was scratches everywhere. I may as well have bought it second hand.
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The writing is a bit literal possibly because it’s a translated book. Quick and simple read, it was ok.
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Read this in 2 days and loved it, 100% recommend
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Honestly this book was so we'll thought out. 4 perspectives all intertwining, all which you wouldn't expect. I'd definitely recommend it 👌
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Great book, highly enjoy the stories from this author. Not too long, but captivating enough. Well worth it
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A book about human nature. Finished in one sitting because I couldn’t stop reading. Cried twice, a really moving book
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Very rarely does a book give me the inspiration and motivation to read it so quickly. Even rarer do I come across books that make me feel overwhelming sadness and hope at the same time. This book is beautifully written, tragic, hopeful and melancholy, after the first chapter I immediately ordered the other two books (the second I am half-way through already). Buy this book. Read it. Re-evaluate your life. Have a cry. Then go on to live your life full of hope for the future. I will be coming back to this book any time I need to be reminded of how beautiful life is, and when I need the motivation to keep going and push forwards.
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I got this for my little sister and she loved reading and she said it was amzing so I think I’m gonna read this as well
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Not my usual sort of book at all, I prefer realistic stories but I found this quite captivating. I understand why some reviewers liked the concept but not the style but it felt very Japanese to me. Probably more accessible to those with a knowledge of Japan but it is short and a very quick read and I will be recommending to lots of friends.
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I had bought Tales from the Cafe which is the short tales taken from the book. I liked it so much I thought I would buy the book.I don't know if it was a translation issue, but it didn't seem to be as well written as the stories. The language was clumsy, almost as if it had been written as a school essay. The characters definitely lacked substance.However, it was ok to read and held my interest enough. I do think that if I had bought this first, I would not have bothered with the tales, so would recommend those only.
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Loved the concept! Opportunity to travel back in time and meet a loved one - but only once! Thought provoking and a lovely, gentle read.
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