Details This month we will be reading: What would you change if you
could go back in time? 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 – 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 would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
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