East Asian Literary Fiction

Tales from the Cafe

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi · Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

In a Tokyo back-alley café that has served coffee for over a century, local legend whispers of a chance to travel back in time. These interconnected tales explore what people would change, whom they would meet, and the bittersweet wisdom found in revisiting the past.

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