Before We Forget Kindness: A Novel

The fifth book in the bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, about a café in Tokyo where customers can travel through time, which has sold over two million copies worldwide.

"I shouldn't have waited for someday. I should have gone to see him right away."

The faces of Café Funiculi Funicula's customers may come and go, but its time-travelling magic of the whimsical coffeeshop endures – including its rule that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee gets cold. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s previous novels, visitors have been reunited with loved ones, made amends with enemies, and visited memories both beloved and painful. Now, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of patrons who will take a trip to the past:

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,

A wife holding a child with no name…

Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot and featuring signature heartwarming characters and wistful storytelling, in Before We Forget Kindness, Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?