Before the coffee gets cold : a novel /
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-
Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. - 272 pages ; 19 cm
"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.
9781335430991 1335430997
2022285886
Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Voyages dans le temps--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION / Magical Realism.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary.
Coffeehouses.
Interpersonal relations.
Time travel.
Japan--Tokyo.
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Novels.
Time-travel fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
PL872.5.A85 / C6413 2020
Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. - 272 pages ; 19 cm
"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.
9781335430991 1335430997
2022285886
Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Voyages dans le temps--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
FICTION / Magical Realism.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary.
Coffeehouses.
Interpersonal relations.
Time travel.
Japan--Tokyo.
Fictional Work
Fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Novels.
Time-travel fiction.
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
PL872.5.A85 / C6413 2020