a novel Kawaguchi, Toshikazu 1971- creator author. Trousselot, Geoffrey translator. text Fictional Work Fiction. Magic realist fiction. Novels. Time-travel fiction. Science fiction. Science fiction. Magic realist fiction. Time-travel fiction. Novels. Romans. onc 2020 monographic eng jpn

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272 pages ; 19 cm. In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices. In a small back alley of 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 coffee-- and the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. There are rules that must be followed. And the most important one: the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. -- adapted from jacket The lovers -- Husband and wife -- The sisters -- Mother and child. Toshikazu Kawaguchi ; translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot. "Originally published in Japanese in 2015 as Coffee Ga Samenai Uchimi by Sunmark Publishing, Inc., Tokyo, Japan."--Title page verso. "First published in 2019 in the United Kingsom by Picador ; This edition published in 2020."--Title page verso. In English. Translated from the Japanese. a-ja--- Coffeehouses Japan Tokyo Fiction Time travel Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Voyages dans le temps Romans, nouvelles, etc FICTION / Magical Realism FICTION / Literary FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary Coffeehouses Interpersonal relations Time travel Japan Tokyo PL872.5.A85 C6413 2020 895.636 K179b Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971- London : Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2019 9781335430991 2022285886 NjBwBT 220709 20260126153001.0 22688699 eng