Before the Coffee Gets Cold

If you could go back,who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyothere is a caf├⌐ 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 summerfour customers visit the caf├⌐ in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simpleand there are rules that must be followed. Most importantthe trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. Heartwarmingwistfulmysterious and delightfully quirkyToshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?