Ĭontinue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe and Before Your Memory Fades. The novel Before the coffee gets cold is adapted from a 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi, which won the 10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.
It is an epic tale of family, secrets, loss, marriage, betrayal, friendships, laughter, and regrets. She is a true storyteller, and Before the Coffee Gets Cold is her best book. This novel is written by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 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.īut 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. Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in 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. 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?
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