Before I Knew I Loved You: A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café (Original) (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6)
Before I Knew I Loved You: A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café (Original) (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6)
    Before I Knew I Loved You: A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café (Original) (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6)
Before I Knew I Loved You: A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café (Original) (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6)

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Learn what makes this product unique and why it’s right for you.

Review Quotes:
Praise for the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

"Heartwarming, whimsical... offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic." -- The New York Times

"Endearing." -- New York Times Book Review

"The narrative is deeply moving." -- Chicago Review of Books

"A complete page-turner from the start to the end."-- Buzzfeed

"Heartwarming, quirky, and wistful." -- HuffPost

"Interwoven into what initially feels like a whimsical escape are existential conundrums of love and loss, family and freedom, life and death." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Charming." -- Star Tribune

Praise for Before I Knew I Loved You

"Kawaguchi certainly has crafted a perfect recipe; may his resonating reunions live on and on and on. Kawaguchi's latest highlights youthful experiences teens will likely appreciate; discovering this may well charm them into exploring the earlier titles."-- Booklist


Publisher Marketing:
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to time travel, and revisit the ones you love...

In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with four new guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this enchanting work of magical realism, we meet:
  • The girl who couldn't call her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her
  • The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her
  • The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds
  • The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.

Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed for ever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.

The sixth book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, translated from Japanese, Before I Knew I Loved You asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time?

Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
  • Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)
  • Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)
  • Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)
  • Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)
  • Before I Knew I Loved You (Book 6)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-6)



Review Citations:

  • Booklist 04/01/2026 (EAN 9781335000682, Hardcover)
  • Shelf Awareness 12/30/0001 (EAN 9781335000682, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He has produced, directed and written for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song and family time. His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. This is his debut as an author. Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan.



Learn what makes this product unique and why it’s right for you.

Review Quotes:
Praise for the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

"Heartwarming, whimsical... offering comfort at a time when the world seems off-kilter and chaotic." -- The New York Times

"Endearing." -- New York Times Book Review

"The narrative is deeply moving." -- Chicago Review of Books

"A complete page-turner from the start to the end."-- Buzzfeed

"Heartwarming, quirky, and wistful." -- HuffPost

"Interwoven into what initially feels like a whimsical escape are existential conundrums of love and loss, family and freedom, life and death." -- Christian Science Monitor

"Charming." -- Star Tribune

Praise for Before I Knew I Loved You

"Kawaguchi certainly has crafted a perfect recipe; may his resonating reunions live on and on and on. Kawaguchi's latest highlights youthful experiences teens will likely appreciate; discovering this may well charm them into exploring the earlier titles."-- Booklist


Publisher Marketing:
The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.

In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to time travel, and revisit the ones you love...

In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu Kawaguchi takes us back to the warm heart of the mysterious Funiculi Funicula Cafe, with four new guests whose luminous stories of love, lost and won again, will reaffirm your belief in its eternal potential. In this enchanting work of magical realism, we meet:
  • The girl who couldn't call her mother, and yearns to reconnect with her
  • The man who waited for a reply from his girlfriend, and never heard from her
  • The woman anxious to travel ahead to know what her future holds
  • The student who travels back to meet his father again, who passed away many years before.

Yet the same rules always apply - you must return before the coffee gets cold. And while it does, memories are revisited, people are changed for ever, and the enduring power of love transcends the boundaries of time.

The sixth book in the phenomenal, bestselling series, translated from Japanese, Before I Knew I Loved You asks the irresistible question: what would you do if you were offered the chance to go back in time?

Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
  • Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)
  • Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)
  • Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)
  • Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)
  • Before I Knew I Loved You (Book 6)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
  • Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-6)



Review Citations:

  • Booklist 04/01/2026 (EAN 9781335000682, Hardcover)
  • Shelf Awareness 12/30/0001 (EAN 9781335000682, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He has produced, directed and written for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a playwright, his works include COUPLE, Sunset Song and family time. His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. This is his debut as an author. Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan.



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