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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Book 1
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
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ISBN10: 1335430997
ISBN13: 9781335430991
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.62
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781335430991
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: Nov 17 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.62
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
"In this quaint Tokyo cafe, you can time travel . . . BUT there are rules: 1) you can't leave your seat, 2) no intervention will change your present circumstances and 3) you must return before your time-transcending cup of coffee gets cold. A great gift for its accessible writing, big heart and cozy cast of characters. There are no big vocabulary words or grand poetics here. The story is told in an almost repetitive rhythm which makes it very digestable. Time travellling becomes a magical and gratifying transformative tool for storytelling." --Greg
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series
If you could go back in time, 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.
Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe's time-travelling offer in order to:
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?
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series
If you could go back in time, 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.
Prepare to 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 Alzheimer's
- see their sister one last time, and
- meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.
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?
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
- Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)
- Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)
- Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)
- Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
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