Before the coffee gets cold: tales from the cafe. Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 2020.

Following on from Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s sensational debut, Before the Coffee gets Cold in Tales from the Cafe we meet: the man seeking the best friends whose daughter he raised as his own: the son who did not come home for his mother’s funeral; the lover who travelled to see the girl he couldn’t marry; and the ageing detective who couldn’t save his own wife…….

Beautifully told and brimming with warmth, Tales from the Cafe explores how we carry our past with us, and how far we’d go to seen- perhaps for one last time - the ones we love.