Before the Coffee Gets Cold

A Novel

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hardcover, 240 pages

Published Nov. 17, 2020 by Hanover Square Press.

ISBN:
978-1-335-43099-1
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4 stars (6 reviews)

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café 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 café’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 early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to 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 . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving …

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reviewed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Small and profound

5 stars

Before the Coffee Gets Cold was nothing like the other books in my TBR pile. Tiny and softspoken, entombed in a cacophony of big-mouthed, big-font hardbacks, it waited its turn and made itself known gently but poignantly.

You may have read that this book involves time travel, but really only in the same way that The Lord of the Rings was about a ring. It's about people, humanity really. For me to try to explain better is to waste words. This is not my kind of book. But it is now.

reviewed Antes de que se enfríe el café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (コーヒーが冷めないうちに, #1)

Review of 'Antes de que se enfríe el café' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Creo que todos, en algún momento de nuestra vida, hemos querido regresar al pasado, para hacer algo diferente, para cambiar. Sin embargo, sabemos que eso no puede ser, pues un pequeño cambio podría alterar inefablemente el presente. Por ese motivo, el autor nos da una oportunidad, es posible volver al pasado y encontrarte con aquella persona, una oportunidad para verle, y probablemente decirle eso que no supimos hacer, o bien, darle una alternativa. Eso sí, sin importar lo que hagas el presente no cambiará.

Esto sucede en un pequeño sótano de Tokio, donde hay una cafetería especial, si te sientas en un lugar particular y cumples una serie de reglas estrictas, podrás viajar en el tiempo y cumplir con el propósito autoimpuesto, eso sí, debes hacerlo antes de que se enfríe el café.

En la novela encontramos cuatro historias que se entrelazan entre quienes administran el café y quienes lo …

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