The release date for the English version of 'Tales from the Café' by
Toshikazu Kawaguchi is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
For almost a century, a Tokyo café located in a little back alley has been providing expertly made coffee to customers. However, this coffee shop provides a special experience for its patrons: a chance to go back in time.
This tale about four new customers who are all eager to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer comes from the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.
We shall be introduced to a few faces that readers of Kawaguchi's prior book would recognise:
The guy who returns to meet his closest buddy after 22 years of absence
The son who was not allowed to go to the burial of his own mother
The guy who went to meet the girl he was unable to wed
The elderly detective who never delivered the present to his spouse...
In order to go on with their lives, the characters in this lovely, straightforward narrative must confront their past. Once again, Kawaguchi asks the reader to consider the following: if you could go back in time, what would you change?