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Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Kawaguchi Before 1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Before the coffee gets cold ; Book 1
- Standardized Title:
- Coffee ga samenai uchini. English
- コーヒーが冷めないうちに. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
- Coffeehouses.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Time travel.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Japanese fiction--Translations into English.
- Japanese fiction.
- Genre:
- Science fiction
- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Novels
- Time-travel fiction
- Science fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Time-travel fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : Hanover Square Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- In English. Translated from the Japanese.
- 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.
- "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 something else besides coffee -- 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. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?"--from jacket.
- Contents:
- The lovers
- Husband and wife
- The sisters
- Mother and child.
- Notes:
- "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.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 9781529029581 Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781335430991
- 1335430997
- OCLC:
- 1204218020
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