In this Pan Macmillan video, Toshikazu Kawaguchi talks about his surprise of the international popularity of his Before the Coffee Gets Cold series and the theme of awkward intimacy that runs through each book. His latest book, Before We Say Goodbye (Hanover Square Press, 2023), translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, concludes the series.
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