Tales from the Cafe

<b>The second book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.<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.