

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.īut 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. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel 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. This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives.One of the most popular Booktok books on Tiktok in 2022 The old detective who never gave his wife that gift. The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song and family time.

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, 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?
