Japan's popular book series "Before the Coffee Gets Cold" began as a play before a publisher asked author Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...

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These whimsical, escapist books have long been popular in Japan and Korea. But now translations of titles like We'll ...

But now translations of popular titles — like Syou Ishida's We'll Prescribe You a Cat, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum — have ...

Before the Coffee Gets Cold' by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is the first in a series of short Japanese books which have been translated into English and around 34 other languages. It contains four ...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” explores loss by allowing patrons to return to significant moments in their past, with the caveat that the future won’t change—and if ...

This is more than just a book club. Whether you're an avid reader like Kirstie, who literally looks at a book cover and inhales the words or Christina, who has a real passion for buying books and ...