Tales from the Cafe

<p><b>The million-copy bestselling series<br><br>Toshikazu Kawaguchi&rsquo;s heartwarming <i>Tales from the cafe, </i>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?</b><br><br>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 . . .<br><br>From the author of <i>Before the coffee gets cold</i> 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 Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational <i>Before the coffee gets cold</i>, we will be introduced to:<br><br><i>The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago<br>The son who was unable to attend his own mother&rsquo;s funeral<br>The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry<br>The old detective who never gave his wife that gift . . .</i><br><br>This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives.</p>