Tales from the Cafe - Special Edition with Sprayed Edges

The million-copy bestselling series. Now discover the second book in the series as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. 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, 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 tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Continue the heartwarming storytelling with Before Your Memory Fades and Before We Say Goodbye. *Pre-order Book 5, Before We Forget Kindness , now!*

Product details

• Authors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Trousselot (Translation)
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2024
• EAN: 9781035053766
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3505376-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, Tokyo, FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, Fiction in translation, Speculative fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Science fiction: time travel, FICTION / World Literature / Japan, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary