Before the Coffee Gets Cold - The heart-warming million-copy sensation from Japan

<p><b>The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.<br><br>Toshikazu Kawaguchi&rsquo;s moving <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold, </i>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?</b><br><br>In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe 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.<br><br>In <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold</i>, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe&rsquo;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.<br><br>But 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 . . .<br><br><b>Continue the beautiful storytelling with<i> Tales from the Cafe,</i> <i>Before Your Memory Fades</i>, and<i> Before We Say Goodbye.</i></b></p>