TY - BOOK AU - Kawaguchi,Toshikazu AU - Trousselot,Geoffrey TI - Before the coffee gets cold: a novel SN - 9781335430991 AV - PL872.5.A85 C6413 2020 U1 - FIC PY - 2020/// PY - 2015/// CY - [Toronto, Ontario, Canada] PB - Hanover Square Press KW - Coffeehouses KW - Japan KW - Tokyo KW - Fiction KW - Time travel KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Voyages dans le temps KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - FICTION / Magical Realism KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Literary KW - FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary KW - fast KW - Fictional Work KW - Magic realist fiction KW - Novels KW - Time-travel fiction KW - Science fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - Romans KW - rvmgf N1 - "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; The lovers --; Husband and wife --; The sisters --; Mother and child N2 - 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 coffee-- and 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. There are rules that must be followed. And the most important one: the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. -- adapted from jacket ER -