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Tales from the cafe : a novel / Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot.

Van Pelt Library PL872.5.A85 T35 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- author.
Contributor:
Charles Wendell David Library Fund.
Trousselot, Geoffrey, translator.
Series:
Before the coffee gets cold ; Book 2
Before the Coffee Gets Cold ; 2
Standardized Title:
Kono uso ga barenai uchi ni. English
Language:
English
Japanese
Subjects (All):
Japan--Tokyo.
Coffeehouses--Japan--Tokyo--Fiction.
Coffeehouses.
Time travel--Fiction.
Time travel.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations.
Japanese fiction--Translations into English.
Japanese fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Time-travel fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Novels.
Fantasy fiction
Fiction
Time-travel fiction
Magic realist fiction
Novels
Science fiction.
Physical Description:
256 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Hanover Square Press, 2021.
Language Note:
In English, translated from the Japanese.
Summary:
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?'.
Contents:
Best friend
Mother and son
Lovers
Married couple.
Notes:
"Originally published in Japan as Kono uso ga barenai uchi ni by Sunmark Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, in 2017"--Title page verso
"First published in 2020 in the United Kingdom by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. This edition published in 2021"--Title page verso
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.
Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.
Other Edition:
Reproduction of: 9781529050868 Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2020
ISBN:
9781335630988
1335630988
OCLC:
1259442356

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