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Tales from the cafe : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- (author.). Trousselot, Geoffrey, (translator.). Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- translation of: Omoide ga kienai uchini. English. (Added Author).

Summary:

In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, "What would you do if you could travel back in time?."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781335630988 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 255 pages ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Hanover Square Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Sunmark Publishing, 2017.
Sequel to: Before the coffee gets cold.
Translation of: Omoide ga kienai uchini.
Subject: Coffeehouses > Japan > Tokyo > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Time travel > Fiction.
Genre: Magic realist fiction.
Time-travel fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    In this highly anticipated sequel to Before the Coffee Gets Cold, four new customers get the chance to travel back in time to face up to their past in order to move on with their lives. 100,000 first printing.
  • Baker & Taylor
    In this highly anticipated sequel to Before the Coffee Gets Cold, four new customers get the chance to travel back in time to face up to their past in order to move on with their lives.
  • Harlequin
    From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.

    In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

    With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives.

    Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, "What would you do if you could travel 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 the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)


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