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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi

A gentle novel about second chances, and the time you actually have.

In a small Tokyo café you can travel back in time, but only briefly and you can't change the present — so what's left is what you choose to feel and say. It's quiet, melancholy and oddly comforting, and it sits with the same questions Four Thousand Weeks raises, just in fiction. A soft palate-cleanser between the heavier reads.

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