Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Part Two
Tales from the Cafe
Number of pages: 231
Written by: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there's a cafe that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. But in addition to the coffee, this cafe offers its customers a unique experience: the opportunity to travel through time.
As in the first part of the novel "Before the Coffee Gets Cold," we read about four new customers, each of whom hopes to benefit from time travel.
In addition to the characters we know from the previous novel, in this novel we will get to know:
• The man who returned to see his best friend who died 22 years ago.
• The son who was unable to attend his father's funeral.
• The man who traveled to see the girl he did not marry.
• The investigator who did not have the opportunity to present a birthday gift to his wife.
This simple and beautiful novel tells the story of people who must confront their pasts in order to move forward with their lives.
Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask himself: What would you change if you could travel through time?