International Fiction Book Club Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Before the Coffee Gets Cold 15 June 2020 The third meeting of the Litfest International Fiction Book Club was held by Zoom on Monday 15 June at 6.30pm. We discussed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by...
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International Fiction Book Club Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Before the Coffee Gets Cold 15 June 2020 The third meeting of the Litfest International Fiction Book Club was held by Zoom on Monday 15 June at 6.30pm. We discussed Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, and published in paperback and as an eBook by PIcador. About the Book Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a tale of four people, each hoping that a mysterious café will allow them to travel back in time to to put right something arising from a missed opportunity, but what they discover is not what any of them or the reader expects. We chose this book because which of us has not wanted to rerun a scene from our lives in which it is possible to say what was left unsaid, do what was left undone, or just as likely vice versa. It is a fascinating novel with an unusual origin, so we were very glad that Ansa Khan Khattak, commissioning editor at Picador, could join us to explain
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