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Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : Hanover Square Press, 2020Description: 213 pages ; 19.8cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781529029581
  • 9781335430991
  • 1335430997
Uniform titles:
  • Coffee ga samenai uchini. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PL872.5.A85 C6413 2020
Contents:
The lovers -- Husband and wife -- The sisters -- Mother and child.
Summary: In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.Summary: 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 coffee-- and 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. There are rules that must be followed. And the most important one: the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. -- adapted from jacketOther editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- Before the coffee gets cold.
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"Originally published in Japanese in 2015 as Coffee Ga Samenai Uchimi by Sunmark Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, Japan."--Title page verso.

"First published in 2019 in the United Kingsom by Picador ; This edition published in 2020."--Title page verso.

The lovers -- Husband and wife -- The sisters -- Mother and child.

In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.

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 coffee-- and 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. There are rules that must be followed. And the most important one: the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. -- adapted from jacket

In English. Translated from the Japanese.

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