Tales from the Cafe

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi´s heartwarming Tales from the cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? 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 Toshikazu Kawaguchi´s sensational Before the coffee gets cold, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother´s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The 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.