Before the Truth is Revealed - Before the Coffee Gets Cold 2

The highly anticipated sequel to the amazing bestselling novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What would you change if you could travel to the past?

In a small alleyway in Tokyo, there's a café that has been serving perfectly brewed coffee for over a hundred years. But this shop offers a unique experience to its customers – the ability to travel to the past.

In Before the Truth Is Revealed, the second book after Toshikazu Kawaguchi's stunning literary debut, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four new characters who wish to travel to the past to find a loved one: a man looking for his best friend whose daughter he raised as his own, the son who didn't return home for his mother's funeral, the lover who wanted to see the girl he couldn't marry, and the elderly detective who couldn't save his own wife.

The rules remain the same: Customers must sit in the correct seat, accept the coffee offered to them, and, above all, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold.

With simplicity and warmth, this book explores how the past we carry within us affects us and how far we are willing to go to meet the people we love, even if only for one last time.

They wrote about the book:

“[...] it’s easy to be cynical, and far rarer to find narratives that end in genuine tears of joy.” –New York Times

“Kawaguchi uniquely handles a topic that many have dealt with, time travel, and manages to highlight the power of joy as a legacy.” –Library Journal

“A delightful book, an emotional balm with lasting action.” –Booklist