Before the Coffee Gets Cold: The cosy million-copy sensation from Japan

The bestselling international phenomenon, now wrapped up in a gorgeous, special festive gift edition - the perfect stocking filler for a loved one.What would you do if you could go back in time?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 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- see their sister one last time- 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 . . . Translated from Japanese by G