Before the coffee gets cold : tales from the cafe /
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-
Before the coffee gets cold : tales from the cafe / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. - 192 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published in Japan by Sunmark Publishing in 2017.
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 ago. The son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeral. The man who went back 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. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?--
Translated from the Japanese.
1529050863 9781529050868
2020418251
GBC082254 bnb
019835029 Uk
Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
PL872.5.A85 / C6413 2020b
895.636
Before the coffee gets cold : tales from the cafe / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. - 192 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published in Japan by Sunmark Publishing in 2017.
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 ago. The son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeral. The man who went back 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. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?--
Translated from the Japanese.
1529050863 9781529050868
2020418251
GBC082254 bnb
019835029 Uk
Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
Time travel--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
PL872.5.A85 / C6413 2020b
895.636