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Tales from the Café
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?
Tales from the Café
Tales from the Café
Cozy Pairings
Voodoo is a rich and inviting fragrance built around the depth of freshly brewed coffee, softened with the natural sweetness of sugar cane. Warm and slightly indulgent, this scent blends bold, roasted notes with a smooth, lingering sweetness that feels both energizing and comforting. Subtle and atmospheric, it carries a hint of something more, adding a layer of intrigue that makes the fragrance feel warm, familiar, and just a little bit magical.
Why we chose this: In a small Tokyo café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years, four customers at a time are given the chance to travel back in time, for as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. These are quiet, aching, deeply human stories about what we would say if we had one more chance, and what we carry when we do not. Voodoo carries the warm, roasted depth of a series where a single cup of coffee holds more meaning than most people will ever find in a lifetime, rich and sweet and alive with something that feels like the particular magic of a place that has been quietly changing people for generations. It is the candle for every book in this series. Light this candle before you sit down with one of these stories, and let the warmth fill the room like a café on a quiet afternoon, where the coffee is always exactly right and the time you have left to drink it is the only thing that matters.