TY - BOOK AU - Kawaguchi,Toshikazu AU - Trousselot,Geoffrey TI - Before the coffee gets cold: tales from the cafe SN - 1529050863 AV - PL872.5.A85 C6413 2020b U1 - 895.636 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan KW - Coffeehouses KW - Japan KW - Tokyo KW - Fiction KW - Time travel KW - Interpersonal relations N1 - Originally published in Japan by Sunmark Publishing in 2017 N2 - 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?-- ER -