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Japanese writer Toshikazu Kawaguchi poses during a photo session in Paris in October 2023. His series, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, has sold more than six million copies. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ...

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 ...

The five books in Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series are set in an old, below-ground café called Funiculi Funicula that offers patrons the chance to travel back in time. The series ...

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 ...