Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set (Books 1-6)

The official collector’s box set containing six beloved stories from the Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series!What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new 6-book box set. Step inside Tokyo’s whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters, including:Before the Coffee Gets ColdHeartwarming, 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?Tales from the CaféWith faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives.Before Your Memory Fades On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its customers the extraordinary experience of travelling through time. Read all about these stories, including the daughter who begrudges her deceased parents for leaving her orphaned, a comedian who aches for his beloved and their shared dreams, a younger sister whose grief has become all-consuming, and a young man who realizes his love for his childhood friend too late.Before We Say GoodbyeIn the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, readers are introduced to a new set of visitors: the husband with something important left to say; the woman who couldn't bid her dog farewell; the woman who couldn't answer a proposal; and the daughter who drove her father away.Before We Forget KindnessIn the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests, such as the father who could not allow his daughter to get married, a woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one, a boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents, and a wife holding a child with no name.Before I Knew I Loved YouIn the latest upcoming book in Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Toshikazu Kawaguchi introduces us to four guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in our humanity, including the girl who couldn’t call her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her; the man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her; the woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds; and the student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.Yet within each heartwarming story, the same rules always apply – you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed for ever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time. Read more