tales from the cafe Kawaguchi, Toshikazu 1971- creator author. Trousselot, Geoffrey translator. text novel enk London Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan 2020 monographic eng jpn

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192 pages ; 20 cm In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time ... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers of Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to:The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years agoThe son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeralThe man who went back to see the girl who he could not marryThe old detective who never gave his wife that gift ... This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?-- Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. Originally published in Japan by Sunmark Publishing in 2017. Translated from the Japanese. a-ja--- Coffeehouses Japan Tokyo Fiction Time travel Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Japanese fiction PL872.5.A85 C6413 2020b 895.636 9781529050868 1529050863 2020418251 Ayesha Abed Library YDX 250707 20250707135019.0 44470 eng