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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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7.8/10

2020

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD* *NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* If you could go back, 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. 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?

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Alimathrated ★ 8/10
April 14, 2025

Easy read, the short stories are well intertwined.

luninharated ★ 7/10
September 1, 2024

Elirated ★ 8/10
May 30, 2024

J’aime le concept du livre, très simple. Histoires touchantes surtout celle sur la perte de mémoire. Une continuité entre les livres vis à vis des propriétaires du café.

Raphaëlle Brunaudrated ★ 10/10
February 17, 2024

C’est si doux, si beau, si triste et joyeux en même temps, ça m’a trop émue !!

Yaaseenrated ★ 7/10
January 16, 2024

Cozy read. Japanese coffee store where patrons have the chance to travel back in time or to the future. Had a difficult time remembering everyone’s names 😢

Kelly Barbosarated ★ 10/10
July 24, 2023

Comment j’ai pleuré toutes les larmes de mon corps ?

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