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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Before we say goodbye</title>
    <subTitle>a novel</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kawaguchi, Toshikazu</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1971-</namePart>
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    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">author.</roleTerm>
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  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Trousselot, Geoffrey</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">translator.</roleTerm>
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  <genre authority="">Magic realist fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="">Time-travel fiction.</genre>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
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    <extent>232 pages ;  19 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series. The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visitors: the husband with something important left to say; the woman who couldn't bid her dog farewell; the woman who couldn't answer a proposal; and the daughter who drove her father away. Featuring signature heartwarming characters and wistful storytelling, in the beautifully haunting Before We Say Goodbye, Kawaguchi asks: Who would you visit if you could travel through time?</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>I. The husband -- II. The farewell -- III. The proposal -- IV. The daughter.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.</note>
  <note>"First published in 2023 in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. This edition published in 2023. Originally published in Japan as Sayonara Mo Ienai Uchi by Sunmark Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, in 2021."--Title page verso.</note>
  <note>Translated from the Japanese.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Coffeehouses</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Time travel</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">FIC K39be 2019</classification>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Before the coffee gets cold series 4</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781335009111</identifier>
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