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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
- Narrated by: Arina Ii
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
The million-copy bestselling series about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Cold, 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?
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 back in time.
In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’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 Alzheimer's, see their sister one last time, and 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 . . .
Continue the beautiful storytelling with Tales from the Cafe, Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness - all out now!
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- Andrea
- 04-10-19
A simple, quietly considered novella
Narration was good, unassuming which suited the story.
Sweet little storyline, exploring people's motivations to travel through time.
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- Alexandra Forrai
- 16-07-22
Take a moment to relax
I loved being transported by the mellow voice of the narrator/interpreter of this book (Arina Ii) through the life stories of the characters. I'm not always comfortable with certain narrators but I really loved Arina!
This is not a book that will change your life but it's memorable through its unique setting. I actually hope friends of mine read it so that we can look at our coffees differently every day.
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- Mollie mallinson
- 28-04-23
Beautiful story
This book was beautiful! I adored the story line and the way it read made the whole book feel nostalgic
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- Anonymous User
- 23-11-23
Too many unpronounceable names
Got overwhelmed with the names, couldn’t remember who is who. Had to re read too many times
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-11-21
Great premise
what a great story, I like how it all tied together even if it was quite predictable.
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- dtt
- 31-01-23
Excellent narration of subtle and absorbing linked stories
It takes a few minutes to enter the world of this very special cafe but the skilled reader draws you into the quiet prose; the stories subtly weave notes of sadness, humour and even suspense. Like the café itself, what at first appears small turns out to be subtly far reaching.
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- JE
- 15-01-23
It’s a bit on the nose
It’s a nice idea but it didn’t really move me and it got a bit predictable
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- Sian
- 04-11-23
Beautiful and poignant
A very moving story, sensitively told, which touches on many of our deepest human loves and fears. Very good narration also.
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- E.
- 20-02-22
intriguing story
Intriguing story with a happy ending.
The audio narrator did a great job.
i'd recommend this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-12-22
Ghost
We read this in a book group as we wanted something different. I also listened to this audible which I enjoyed more after the novel. I think it would make a better play, but our group generally enjoyed it and appreciated the premise. One group member had read the whole series which was useful.
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