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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2015 · 213 pages · Fiction

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. Through four interconnected stories, visitors confront their pasts to find closure with loved ones. With strict rules-including the necessity to return before the coffee gets cold-this poignant novel explores the enduring power of regret, hope, and the human spirit.

Widely read around the world. Estimated 5 million readers.

Atmosphere: FantasticalVibe: TenderPacing: Fast-paced
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