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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Written by: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
Narrated by: Arina Ii
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Publisher's Summary

The million-copy bestselling series.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do 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 cafe 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 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.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Continue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades.

©2019 Toshikazu Kawaguchi (P)2019 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

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Heart melting stories of time travel!

What a weird genre! Heart felt stories when people travel in past through a lesser known underground cafe in Japan. it's not sci fi, it's not love stories. it's just weird stories which are absolutely smashing.

loved reading this book. Four stars though because I thought editing could have been crisper and the book could be half of actually what it is.

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it's such a mesmerizing narrative being told in such a heart warming way

a must listen, loved the audiobook and how it has been narrated. amaxing storytelling, character building and such depth. really enjoyed it thoroughly.

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A really good ending

The book does test your patience at multiple points of time but the end is probably worth it. If you just want. the crux. You can skip chapter 3 ig

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a beautiful story of hopes and imagination

a beautiful story of hopes and imagination. I felt happy to believe that such a chair exist and wish to visit this cafe some day in life if this really exists... beautiful reading style kept me engaged throughout. in world filled with so much negativity a story like this is just a fresh breathe of hopes and positivity.

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Good concept, a bit slow

The book was narrated well but the writing itself is slow paced. The concept of time travel could have been explored a vit more.

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Heart-warming stories

The book is short, and filled with descriptions of the people, their stories and the legend of the café. And these descriptions helped me in seeing the book play out visually in mind. It's so beautiful. The stories are heart-warming and simple at the same time. Get your coffee and start listening! ☕️

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Cinematic

I can't help but wonder when this is going to be adapted into a movie. This book was very captivating from the beginning, the mythos of time travel is wonderfully made full by the personal stories of the people visiting the cafe and the cafe workers themselves. Found a new fav author.

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wished for a better ending

The build-up is great & keeps you engrossed but the ending is subpar. While listening to the story, you kinda figure out a few things/learnings by yourself along the way. So, you'd hope that the author would surprise you at the end & not give you what you've been thinking all along but sadly that doesn't happen. Overall it's a basic book which had the potential to be better.

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Eerily Interesting!

This book takes you on a roller coster ride, with bends you had never even seen coming!
Wonderful plot, beautiful character development and an absolutely gripping theme. One does tend to question some of the details but well, it is fiction at the end of the day. Looking forward to reading rest of the books in this series

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Exceptional

Beautiful book which leaves one feeling good at the end of each chapter/story. The narration was spot on.

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