Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Toshikazu Kawaguchi's beautiful and moving book explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? 

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. 

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the cafe, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .