Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu KawaguchiIn a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf 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 Cafe, 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

an unforgettable cast of characters

and thousands of years of tradition and customs to learn practically overnight

My Dark Vanessa goes straight to the heart of some of the most complex issues our age is grappling with

Utterly infatuated with her

had three operations

she challenges Kellen to take a different path

Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years

The principal narrator of the saga

this collection–the first in a series of short stories written by the master storyteller–is funny

The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on to challenge the Christian code of morality in Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

Although we generally make it through the day

vital question:How far will we let it go