Before the Coffee Gets Cold

If you could go back, 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. 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. 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?

The highly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café. In a back alley in 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. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four customers who hope to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each of them must face up to their past to move on with their life. Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, What would you change if you could travel back in time?

The latest novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, following four new customers in a little Tokyo café where customers can travel back in time. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that 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. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Cafe comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer. Along with some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister and a lover, each with something they wish they had said differently. With his signature heartwarming characters and immersive storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

The internationally bestselling “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” Series, following a new group of customers in a magical time-traveling Tokyo café The regulars at Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with the whimsical ability it grants them to take a trip into the past, as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to get cold. In “Before We Say Goodbye”, which is translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and features signature heartwarming characters and wistful storytelling, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: What would you change if you could travel back in time?

In the fifth book in the sensational “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: -The father who could not allow his daughter to get married -A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one -A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents -A wife holding a child with no name... They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before we forget kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future.

What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set. Step inside Tokyo's whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters, including: • “Before the Coffee Gets Cold”: estranged sisters, a newly pregnant customer, and the wife of a man with early onset Alzheimer's • “Tales from the Café”: a detective with a gift, a son with regrets, and a man chasing "the one who got away" • “Before Your Memory Fades”: a comedian with big dreams, a grieving sister, and childhood lovers. Translated from Japanese in the signature prose of Geoffrey Trousselot, each installment of this series brings new adventure that has captivated millions of readers around the world.