Days at the Torunka Café

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo cafe where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Cafe, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighborhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the cafe owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time.While Cafe Torunka serves up a perfect cup of coffee, it provides these sundry souls with nourishment far more lasting. Satoshi Yagisawa brilliantly illuminates the periods in our lives where we feel lost-and how we find our way again.

Product details

• Authors: Satoshi Yagisawa
• Assisted by: Eric Ozawa (Translation)
• Publisher: Zaffre Bonnier
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 01.07.2025
• EAN: 9781786585226
• ISBN: 978-1-78658-522-6
• Series: Yanaka Café; Torunka Café
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Fiction in translation, Japanese, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary