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Before the coffee gets cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

By: Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- [author.]Contributor(s): Trousselot, Geoffrey [translator.]Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 213 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529029581; 1529029589Uniform titles: Coffee ga samenai uchini. English. Subject(s): Time reversal -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Coffeehouses -- FictionGenre/Form: Magic realist fiction. | Short stories. | Fantasy fiction. | Time-travel fiction. DDC classification: 895.636 LOC classification: PL872.5 | .C6413 2019Summary: 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 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 ...

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Translation of: Coffee ga samenai uchini.

Translated from the Japanese.

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 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 ...

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