Description
| Product ID: | 9781529050868 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Before the Coffee Gets Cold |
| Title: | Tales from the Cafe |
| Authors: | Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy, Fiction in translation, Fantasy, Fiction in translation, Japan |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The second novel from the author of the phenomenon, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: more tales from Cafe Funiculi Funicula, where customers may travel back in time – if they obey the rules. For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World. <p><b>The million-copy bestselling series.<br><br>Toshikazu Kawaguchi’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, 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’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 tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives.<br><br><b>Continue the heartwarming storytelling with <i>Before Your Memory Fades</i> and<i> Before We Say Goodbye.</i><br><br>*Pre-order Book 5, <i>Before We Forget Kindness</i>, now!*</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-17 |
