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Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- author.

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

New York : Hanover Square Press, 2021.

©2021

256 pages ; 20 cm

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?'.

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, 2

Coffeehouses -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction.

Time travel -- Fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.

Time-travel fiction.

Magic realist fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Trousselot, Geoffrey, translator.

Kono uso ga barenai uchi ni. English

"Originally published in Japan as Kono uso ga barenai uchi ni by Sunmark Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, in 2017"--Title page verso

"First published in 2020 in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. This edition published in 2021"--Title page verso

In English, translated from the Japanese.

Best friend -- Mother and son -- Lovers -- Married couple.

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