Publisher's Synopsis
Una mesa, un café y una decisión. Eso es todo lo que hace falta para ser feliz.
Una novela sobre el amor, el tiempo perdido y las oportunidades que están por llegar.
Un rumor circula por Tokio... Oculta en uno de sus callejones hay una pequeña cafeterìa que merece la pena visitar no solo por su excelente café, sino también porque, si eliges bien la silla donde sentarte, puedes regresar al pasado. Pero como incluso lo increìble está sujeto a limitaciones, no podrás salir de la cafeterìa mientras dure el viaje, volverás cuando el café se enfrìe y, hagas lo que hagas, el presente no cambiará.
A través de las emocionantes historias de cuatro clientes que se atreven a embarcarse en esta aventura por motivos diferentes, Antes de que se enfrìe el café nos ofrece un relato atemporal sobre el amor, las oportunidades perdidas y la esperanza de un futuro que siempre está por llegar.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café 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 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.
But 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...
Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?
