{"product_id":"before-the-coffee-gets-cold-toshikazu-kawaguchi-9781529029581","title":"Before the Coffee Gets Cold","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese café that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you change if you could go back?\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most popular Booktok books on Tiktok in 2022  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 story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781529029581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.7(H)x13.2(L)x1.7(W)172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 172\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eToshikazu Kawaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He formerly produced, directed and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. 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.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eHeartwarming, whimsical . . . offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic * The New York Times *","brand":"Toshikazu Kawaguchi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46523081425113,"sku":"9781529029581","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781529029581_4e795cf8-8725-4631-8da7-e07b3eeb7c6b.jpg?v=1746712163","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/before-the-coffee-gets-cold-toshikazu-kawaguchi-9781529029581","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}