Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Narrated by:
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Arina Ii
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Written by:
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Geoffrey Trousselot - translator
About this listen
The million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heart-warming Before the Coffee Gets Cold, translated from Japanese, 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?
In a cosy 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.
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.
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 . . .
‘This book broke my heart, took the pieces, and put them back together in a messy and beautiful way. . . '
-@well.read.woman on Instagram
Continue the beautifully moving storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness.
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- Shashank
- 29-01-22
Absolutely loved it
I loved the narration and the beautiful story! it's a beautiful story and the way it has been narrated is absolutely amazing! Great work!
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- Madhurima Mantha
- 23-11-23
Eerily Interesting!
This book takes you on a roller coster ride, with bends you had never even seen coming!
Wonderful plot, beautiful character development and an absolutely gripping theme. One does tend to question some of the details but well, it is fiction at the end of the day. Looking forward to reading rest of the books in this series
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- Shreya
- 25-09-22
Emotional and Intriguing
This is well narrated and well written. Short stories which touch your heart.Short and sweet. A joyful listen.
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- Yogeshmp
- 05-07-24
the purposes
love the thought that even though a situation may not change, a change in heart can improve the way one handles it.
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- Pragya Singhal
- 30-10-20
A sweet little gem
I came across this book through a random scroll and decided to go for it. It's a unique plot and the story progresses smoothly. The book starts off very well and the narrator does a very good job of voice modulation to bring out the various characters. The theme of the book is time travel, skipping the complicated logic behind it. The overall premise tells you that you need to live in the present, no matter how the past went. Also take care of your actions today as they will impact your future. Also people and relationships are precious, value them and keep the ego away. Life will not be what we expect it to be, but it can go in the direction we decide to take it.
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- S. Bhat
- 01-11-22
Peek into life in Japan
Loved it ! loved every character in it. Loved the simplicity of the characters and how beautifully / thoughtfully they dealt with their individual situations and their thought processes around choosing to take the chair. very sensitivity and thoughtfully written book 👌👌
Enjoyed it thoroughly 😍
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- Akhilesh
- 13-12-23
Cinematic
I can't help but wonder when this is going to be adapted into a movie. This book was very captivating from the beginning, the mythos of time travel is wonderfully made full by the personal stories of the people visiting the cafe and the cafe workers themselves. Found a new fav author.
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- varsha johari
- 03-04-24
Interesting
The plot is captivating except a few loopholes. Some aspects are just not explained till the very end making me wonder if it was lost in translation. Not interested in reading the sequels because of this reason.
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- Hrishik
- 08-12-24
Quite Bland
Very Boring and Uninspiring. Repetitive. Unimaginative. There is a lot of scope for improvement in almost all the stories.
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- Deepak Lakhwani
- 13-10-21
Heart melting stories of time travel!
What a weird genre! Heart felt stories when people travel in past through a lesser known underground cafe in Japan. it's not sci fi, it's not love stories. it's just weird stories which are absolutely smashing.
loved reading this book. Four stars though because I thought editing could have been crisper and the book could be half of actually what it is.
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