Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

A Novel

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot

Hanover Square Press · Print & ebook · November 17, 2020

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

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Who it’s for
A quiet fantasy with a collectible feel and a gentle, recursive pull.
Genres
Time Travel Fiction, Magical Realism, Japanese Fiction
Published
Hanover Square Press, November 17, 2020

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*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, 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.

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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. Prepare to 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. 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? Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: - Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1) - Tales from the Cafe (Book 2) - Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3) - Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4) - Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5) - Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

Quiet Entrances

A quiet fantasy with a collectible feel and a gentle, recursive pull.

Come here for

  • Coffee-shop time-travel premise
  • Series comfort, easy entry point

Expect

  • Emotional intimacy over spectacle
  • Book-club-friendly pacing

Where it sits

Magical Realism81%
Japanese Fiction73%
Time Travel Fiction49%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Contemporary Fantasy
  • Literary Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction
  • Time Travel Fiction
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  • Women's Fiction
  • Multigenerational Family Stories
  • Magical Realism
  • Small-Town Fiction
Authors
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Published
November 17, 2020
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Contemporary Fantasy