Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

On this episode, we discuss our July 2022 pick is Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, a japanese novel about a Tokyo cafe where you can order a coffee that lets you go back in time, but only until your coffee gets cold. 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.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 (Hardcover) Published November 17th 2020 by Hanover Square Press. Listen to this episode from Books and Boba on Spotify. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. ISBN13: 9781110660742 The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions by Toshikazu Kawaguchi No Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 14.39 - 18.06 Paperback - Audio CD - Select Condition Like New Unavailable Very Good Unavailable Good 14.39 Acceptable Unavailable New 18.06 See All 11 Editions from 14.

Its popularity inspired Kawaguchi to adapt the play into. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Originally debuting onstage in Japan, Before the Coffee Gets Cold won praise and awards for its playwright, Toshikazu Kawaguchi. What would you change if you could go back in time?