Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi's international bestseller is set in a Tokyo backstreet café where legend says a particular seat lets you travel back in time — with one catch: you must return before your coffee goes cold. Over one quietly moving summer, four customers each attempt the journey, confronting regret, loss, and unfinished goodbyes. A gentle, bittersweet novel about what we would change, and what we can only learn to accept — translated from the original Japanese.