Before the coffee gets cold : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.
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- 2 of 4 copies available at Sage Library System.
- 0 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District. (Show)
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Summary:
"If you could go back, who would you want to meet? 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 something else besides coffee--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. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold...." -- from book cover.| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hood River County Library | FIC KAWAGUCHI (Text) | 33892100715755 | Adult New Books | Book | None | 12/29/2020 | Checked out | 03/04/2021 |
| Cook Memorial Library - La Grande | F Kawaguchi, T (Text) | 35178001832230 | Adult Fiction | Book | Branch_Only_3months | 11/24/2020 | Available | - |
| The Dalles Wasco County Library | KAWAG (Text) | 33892006636956 | NEW BOOKS | New/High Demand | None | 11/20/2020 | Checked out | 03/09/2021 |
| Wallowa Public Library | f kaw (Text) | 30004000248266 | Fiction | Book | None | 01/28/2021 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335430991
- Physical Description: 272 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Hanover Square Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "First published in 2019 in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan." -- Title page verso. Original title: Coffee ga samenai uchimi "This edition published by arrangement with Harlequin Books S.A."--Copyright page. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The lovers -- Husband and wife -- The sisters -- Mother and child. |
| Summary, etc.: | "If you could go back, who would you want to meet? 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 something else besides coffee--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. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold...." -- from book cover. |
| Original Version Note: | Originally published: Tokyo, Japan : Sunmark Publishing, Inc., 2015. |
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| Subject: | Coffeehouses > Japan > Tokyo > Fiction. Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Japanese fiction. Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Time-travel fiction. Domestic fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
Summary:
"If you could go back, who would you want to meet? 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 something else besides coffee--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. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold...." -- from book cover.
