Tales from the Cafe

A Novel

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of the international best seller Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this book follows four new customers who hope to travel back in time in a little Japanese café.

In a back alley in 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 something else besides coffee - the chance to travel back in time.

With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each one must face up to the past to move on with their life.

Kawaguchi's wistful and heartwarming new novel once again invites the listener to ask themselves, "What would you do if you could travel back in time?"

©2021 Toshikazu Kawaguchi (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

A Perfect Follow-up

This second book is a special reminder to what a difference a few words can do to change a person’s life and bring happiness. More heartwarming stories to enjoy coffee by. You will want to listen without distractions or you can miss small details with the characters and stories. This second book is equally as good as the first and the series has become a favorite of mine I can listen to multiple times. Kevin Shen does a great job as did the first narrator. Looking forward to more stories.

Simply genious

Everything about this book is wonderful. Yet the most profound thing is the absence of fairytale but a mere life where ppl like you and me are given a chance to... each of his and her own.
Read and make your choice.

My first novel to read, and I’m hooked

I love the stories ,the feeling , the go back in time concept and the way how it made me think deeply about my life and my relationships . I hope someone in Japan could convert this amazing move to an anime movie, it would be amazing !

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More wise lessons

Make sure to read the series in order. This is definitely a continuation story. Hard for me to remember the characters due to lapsed time between listening to the books and the unfamiliar names. The coffee pourers are rich characters.

I enjoyed these Tales

Hope and mystery meet here as the author considers various relationships. Redemption comes to customers at the Café Funiculi Finucula. I recommend this book to all who seek redemption.

Forgiveness of self

Full circle healing of the heart and soul for those who are willing to go deep.

Wonderful book

This is a book I would recommend to a person grieving the loss of a friend, parent or partner. The store takes place in a coffee shop. The people in this story can go back in time or to the future to meet people for a short period of time. There are particular rules they must follow when traveling back in time. Beautifully written and will be buying a paperback copy to keep in home.

sweet love stories

I listened to the 1st book in the series and loved it the female narrator was a little better than the male narrator for this one. But these stories were even better!

Fun quirky short stories

I like anything set in Japan and usually stick to biographies and non-fiction. This was a pleasant twist to my usual reading pattern. The stories were short and enjoyable but most of all surprising. Some lessons similar to Aesops Fables but I never knew what to expect until I got to the end. A fun and imaginative escape into the lives of some interesting characters.

More wonderful heartwarming stories

The second in the series, this book is similar to the first one. We meet more people and follow them to the past. We learn more about the woman in the white dress. We learn more about the staff at the café. If you liked the first book then you will like this one for sure. It took some time to get used to the narrator. Arina Ii did a wonderful job with the first one, portraying the heartwarming but sad mood of the story. Kevin Shen takes a somewhat livelier approach to the story but does it very well. I highly recommend if you liked the first one.