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A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you change if you could go back? For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe 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 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...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?

Hvis du kunne gå bakover i tid, hvem ville du helst ha møtt?I en liten bakgate i Tokyo ligger det en kafé som har servert nytraktet kaffe i mer enn hundre år. Ifølge en lokal myte kan kafeen by på mer enn kaffe, den gir deg også muligheten til å gå bakover i tid.I løpet av noen sommermåneder blir kafeen oppsøkt av fire forskjellige gjester som ønsker å foreta en slik tidsreise. Men å reise i tid er ikke så enkelt, og det finnes regler man må følge. Det aller viktigste er at man må komme tilbake før kaffen blir kald.