Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Sunmark Publishing Inc

The highly anticipated sequel to 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 customers who hope to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each of them must face up to their past to move on with their life. Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the reader to ask themselves, What would you change if you could travel back in time?

A Novel

Tales from the Cafe

在謊言拆穿之前

We can never truly see into the hearts of others. When people get lost in their own worries, they can be blind to the feelings of those most important to them. 

Eneko Uruñuela

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Karrie Yu

Amalie Elisabeth

When spring begins, however, cannot be pinpointed to one particular moment. There is no one day that clearly marks when winter ends and spring begins. Spring hides inside winter. We notice it emerging with our eyes, our skin and other senses. We find it in new buds, a comfortable breeze and the warmth of the sun. It exists alongside winter.

Haya

남다영

Storm

It wasn't that he was dissatisfied with his ordinary life, it was just that from some- where in his heart he heard, I want to find work that is worth spending a lifetime on. 

We can never truly see into the hearts of others. 

‘I am going to be happy,’ she exclaimed.

Life too, passes through difficult winters. 

But after any winter, spring will follow.

Jessie

OK, I’ll live... no matter what happens.. I’ll live for my mother who never stopped wishing for my happiness, right until the very end.

Julia Rutgers

When the spout was just a few centimetres from the cup, a threadlike column of black coffee appeared. It was sound- less, and it didn't appear to be moving; only the surface of the liquid in the cup rose. The coffee that filled the vessel resembled a pitch-black shadow.

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