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In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café 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 ...

From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Café, 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 of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's previous novel, we will be introduced to:

The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago

The son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeral

The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry

The old detective who never gave his wife that gift ...

This beautiful, simple tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Kawaguchi once again invites the reader to ask themselves: what would you change if you could travel back in time?

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Book 2 of 4

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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253 pages
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Thorndike Press Large Print
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Aug. 10 2022
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13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
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1432899007
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978-1432899004
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thorndike Press Large Print; Large type / Large print edition (Aug. 10 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 253 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1432899007
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1432899004
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 318 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm

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Tracey Lapham

Just as Intriguing as the First Book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 7, 2022

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Immediately after reading the first book, I saw this one and just had to get it.
It was just as intriguing as its partner.
Excellent author: relatable characters; exciting, simple, impactful stories.

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Kyle

Liked this better than the first, and looking forward to the third!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 8, 2022

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I liked this better than Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and I liked the little throwbacks to the stories in the first book sprinkled throughout. Again, I liked how the four stories in this book weren’t completely separate. Various little things overlapped, showing that even though they’re four different individuals’ stories, they aren’t all happening completely independently.

The ending of this book seemed like it would have been a good ending to the series, so I’m curious to see what will happen in the third book.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 7, 2022

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This is a must read for any who read the first book

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Lindsay Wincherauk

When we find the strength to reflect…

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 31, 2022

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I needed this. We live in a topsy-turvy world. Depression and suffering are lurking on every corner. We often feel alone and as if we need to eat our emotions. We must remain strong, unflappable, and superhuman.

Are we doing life correctly?

Nobody knows.

I question my every step, breath, and decision.

Teardrops paint my shirt like bloodstains.

I hurt, I want the past to be just that, the past; it haunts me.

What if there was a place you could go to wash away your regrets and allow you to move forward with a fresh view and a bounce to your step?

Tales from the café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (and the other books in this series) provide that escape. Only, it’s not an escape; it is a salve for the soul. Whether it is unrequited love or a decision you made that alters the course of life, Kawaguchi, with the utmost tenderness, delivers tears of joy as he helps us understand life is best lived and that the things that may haunt you the most are manageable.

When we find the strength to reflect, we might find warmth and understanding instead of the heavy burden of what if…

WRITTEN: 24 January 2023

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 4, 2023

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Interesting IDEA. Otherwise badly written, childish and repetitive. Sort if makes me think its an author publishing his own work because no one else would. Needs serious editing but then it would be a greeting card.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 23, 2021

Princess Fuzzypants here: If there was a place where you could turn back time, would you go there? There is a cafe in Tokyo, hidden away, where urban legends say this can be done. Many of the people who seek it out go away once they learn there are some hard and fast rules, the biggest one being you cannot change anything that will affect the present. Since that would be the reason why most would want to turn back the clock, it reduces the number of patrons. There are other rules, including the need to return before a cup of coffee turns cold or be turned into a ghost. And the only person with whom you can visit is someone who has been to the cafe in their lifetime.

It is an interesting premise and has four tales of people who are willing to go back, who need to say or do something so that they can move on with their own lives. There is also an fascinating dynamic with the people who work in the cafe and their relationship with the “gift” they offer. The stories are bittersweet but moving. Four purrs and two paws up.

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Stanley Santos

Love the follow up

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 16, 2020

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A well written sequel

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Kymberly

Doesn't compare to the first one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 18, 2021

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This review is coming from someone who absolutely loved the previous novel.

Okay, so this book is no match to the first release at all. It appears the novel was more to reveal who the woman in the chair is… Meh, I would have rather left it to my imagination, but it was nice knowing nonetheless.

So my main problem with this book is the repetitiveness and long winded explanations. Honestly, as I was reading it felt like the author was desperately attempting to hone in on some points. E.g, the rules of time travel was said probably close to 10 times( and that is a lot for a novella!). There were things I felt the author could have done without explaining. He just felt the need to explain and kept on going. urgh. The writing style felt different to that of the first one. It felt too forced. I must say though, the characters and their plights were not at all bad. The delivery however was what ruined if for me. Maybe the first novella would have sufficed. I find it annoying when an author's first release gains traction and they try to ride on the tailcoat but fail at doing so. Sometimes, it is best to leave things a mystery. Not everything deserves closure and I was perfectly fine with the mysteries of the first book. I think as soon as I saw the relationship tree at the beginning of the page I knew it was going to be a disaster. 1 star for effort but it's a no for me.

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Luscombelady

Unusual and engagingly written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 19, 2021

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purchased having read the first book 'Before the coffee gets cold' - This was a 5 star read so I bought the second book - sometimes high risk as often the next book is not so good. In this case it was every bit as compelling to read and the each visitor to the cafe has a uniquely moving reason for being there. Brilliant and thought provoking. A great book for book clubs as it is a bit different from the norm. I commend it to you - great read.

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Staceyld35

Surprisingly good!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 14, 2022

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After reading mixed reviews about this sequel to such a wonderful debut, I was expecting it not to be that great; especially when the first chapter felt a little slow. Please persevere! It answers some questions left from the first book and has some heartwarming surprises. I finished the book in the same way I left the first one - with a tear in my eye and a smile on my face.

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byron davies

Not quite as good as the first one

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 28, 2022

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But still a charming and enjoyable novel

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Country girl

An unnecessary explanation

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 14, 2021

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An attempt to explain the mysteries of the previous novel. Perhaps some things are best left a mystery.

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