--- product_id: 191459970 title: "Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café" price: "VT1480" currency: VUV in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/191459970-before-the-coffee-gets-cold-a-heartfelt-novel-exploring-regret store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café **Price:** VT1480 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café - **How much does it cost?** VT1480 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/191459970-before-the-coffee-gets-cold-a-heartfelt-novel-exploring-regret) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description *NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER* *AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series If you could go back in time, 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. Prepare to meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafe’s time-travelling offer in order to: confront the man who left them receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's see their sister one last time, and meet the daughter they never got the chance to know. Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time? Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1) Tales from the Cafe (Book 2) Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3) Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4) Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5) Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3) Review: Lite Hearted Story - Enjoying this book. Easy read for a bit of down time. Would follow this author for more stories. Enjoy the lite humor. Review: Nice, heart warming book, but can’t understand the hype - I ordered this book after reading several reviews of how popular it was. It is a nice book with heart warming stories. It made me cry several times. Despite this, I couldn’t understand the hype about this book. It is OK and a good read, but not exceptional. The author is skillful in slowly developing the characters, but the fact that all is set within the confines of a small cafe takes away from the story for me. It is also culturally specific, which made it difficult for me to relate to it at times. The characters seem very restrained in their interactions. The reader is expected to understand a lot from the subtle cultural intricacies of the interactions between the characters, however, those cultural intricacies are from Japanese culture. Due to this, from a Western perspective some parts of the story appear odd. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #785 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #1 in Science Fiction (Kindle Store) #1 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Kindle Store) #2 in Literary Fiction (Kindle Store) | ## Images ![Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Heartfelt Novel Exploring Regret, Redemption and Closure From a Magical Café - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81XuBDUvMaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lite Hearted Story *by M***F on May 2, 2026* Enjoying this book. Easy read for a bit of down time. Would follow this author for more stories. Enjoy the lite humor. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nice, heart warming book, but can’t understand the hype *by N***B on July 31, 2024* I ordered this book after reading several reviews of how popular it was. It is a nice book with heart warming stories. It made me cry several times. Despite this, I couldn’t understand the hype about this book. It is OK and a good read, but not exceptional. The author is skillful in slowly developing the characters, but the fact that all is set within the confines of a small cafe takes away from the story for me. It is also culturally specific, which made it difficult for me to relate to it at times. The characters seem very restrained in their interactions. The reader is expected to understand a lot from the subtle cultural intricacies of the interactions between the characters, however, those cultural intricacies are from Japanese culture. Due to this, from a Western perspective some parts of the story appear odd. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Slow but touching read *by K***T on December 17, 2024* This book was a slow read and not my typical style, so it may rate higher than three stars for others than it did for me. That being said, it was still a very good and touching story that pulls at your heartstrings, especially at the end. It reminds you to no take people for granted. I would recommend this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/191459970-before-the-coffee-gets-cold-a-heartfelt-novel-exploring-regret](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/191459970-before-the-coffee-gets-cold-a-heartfelt-novel-exploring-regret) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-21*