Tales from the Cafe
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi. (2021). Tales from the Cafe. Hanover Square Press.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 2021. Tales From the Cafe. Hanover Square Press.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Tales From the Cafe. Hanover Square Press, 2021.

Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Tales From the Cafe. Hanover Square Press, 2021.

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   • bioText: TOSHIKAZU KAWAGUCHI was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He has produced, directed and written for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. His works as a playwright include COUPLE, Sunset Song and family time. His play Before the Coffee Gets Cold won the grand prize at the Suginami Drama Festival. Before the Coffee Gets Cold has become an international bestseller and has been adapted for the screen in Japan.
     
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From the author of the international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.
With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives.
Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, "What would you do if you could travel back in time?"
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:

Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)

Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)

Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)

Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)

Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)

Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

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     May 1, 2021
     

     In Kawaguchi's internationally best-selling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a LibraryReads pick, an underground caf� in Tokyo allows customers to travel back in time--they just have to sit in a particular seat on a particular day, and the journey will last only as long as it takes to down a cup of coffee. This follow-up introduces us to four more time travelers, from a man who revisits a friend deceased for over two decades to a detective who regrets having never given his wife a special gift. With a 100,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 16, 2021
     Expanding the insightful delights introduced in global bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold (2020), readers are welcomed back to Funiculi Funicula, Tokyo's time-travel caf�. The rules haven't changed, especially the two most urgent: the temporal seeker must wait for the woman-in-white to vacate her seat (yes, even ghosts seek relief!), and, once the fresh coffee is poured, it must be drunk before it gets cold. Although time can be briefly defied, the present cannot be changed. Repeating the intertwined four-part format in this second volume, four guests are transported backward or forward to meet someone beloved: a bride's father seeks his best friend, a potter his late mother, a dying man his fianc�e, a policeman his beloved wife. And in between visits, the woman-in-white gets her poignant backstory, while singular coffee-pourer Kazu gets her own provenance revealed. Lauded playwright Kawaguchi originally created this for the stage, then turned new novelist to adapt his award-winning play for the page. His prose--English-enabled again by Geoffrey Trousselot--might not be the most elegantly polished, but the book's resonating charm provides lasting emotional balm. Read now, watch later: the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series is getting the Hollywood treatment from the teams behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, among other hits.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     This meaningful and emotional sequel to Before the Coffee Gets Cold features four interconnected stories with a broad range of characters. The fascinating premise unfolds in a Tokyo caf� that allows a return to the past, as long as the patrons don't leave their seats and as long as they finish what they need to do before their coffee gets cold. No matter what they do, the caf� patrons cannot change the present; some of them wonder, What's the point of going back in time? As the characters seek and discover the answer to that question, their stories gracefully confront hard topics such as bereavement, despair, parenthood, financial destitution, suicide, miscarriage, and illness. Kawaguchi has found a unique way to manipulate such a commonly used trope as time travel and has captured the power of joy as a legacy. VERDICT These tearful stories hit hard but ultimately lead to a beautiful ending. Fans of Matt Haig's Midnight Library will enjoy this quick read with touches of magical realism and soul-searching.--Andrea Dyba, Oswego P.L. Dist., IL

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.
With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their lives.
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