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Funiculi funicula

This series plunges readers into a world where the lines between reality and the supernatural blur. You'll uncover tales steeped in mystery, where characters confront unexpected twists and profound philosophical questions. With each turn of the page, delve deeper into an enigmatic narrative that offers no respite. It's a journey filled with suspense and the unknown, challenging the boundaries of imagination.

Before Your Memory Fades
Tales from the Cafe
Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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  1. 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. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

    Before the Coffee Gets Cold1
    3.5
  2. Tales from the Cafe

    • 255 pages
    • 9 hours of reading

    Sequel to Before the Coffee Gets Cold, following four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Tokyo cafe.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 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 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 agoThe son who was unable to attend his own mother's funeralThe man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marryThe old detective who never gave his wife that gift . . .

    Tales from the Cafe2
    3.8
  3. The third novel from the author of the phenomenon Before the Coffee Gets Cold: tales from a little cafe in Hakodate, Cafe Donna Donna, where customers may travel through time - if they obey the rules. For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.

    Before Your Memory Fades3
    3.7