Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Kawaguchi, Toshikazu - 2019

US: Pan Macmillan, 2019. Paperback. New. What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley i n 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 u nique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee G ets 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 on set Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughte r 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 l eave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coff ee gets cold ... Toshikazu Kawaguchi?s beautiful, moving story ? translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot ? explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who w ould you want to meet, maybe for one last time?