Free delivery on all orders above $30
Get 10% off all year round! Join Thryft Club
Get 10% off all year round and $10 off your next order! Join Thryft Club

Your cart

Your cart is empty

Check out these collections!

Bestselling Fiction
Bestselling Nonfiction
Bestselling Books for Children
Vintage and Rare Books
Vinyl Records
Women's Clothing
Men's Clothing

Stay in touch and win free books

Keep up with our latest sales and events, and receive
recommendations direct to your inbox. We'll only send the good stuff, promise!

By completing this form, you are signing up to receive our emails and can unsubscribe at any time

New

Tales from the Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
$8.90
Compare to estimated retail price: S$24.90  

The item you've got your eye on is secondhand. You probably already know that, but just in case!

The estimated retail price shown next to any listed item represents the first-hand prices we've seen elsewhere, or the estimated original retail price of a comparable item of the same quality, construction and material offered elsewhere in new condition.

Tales from the Café
Tales from the Café
Tales from the Café

Time-traveling café offers poignant, existential reflections.

"Tales from the Café" serves as more than mere fiction; it’s a meditative blend of nostalgia, human regrets, and the profound what-ifs of life. If you've ever harbored a yearning to revisit and perhaps repair a moment from your past, let Kawaguchi guide you with his elegantly brewed narrative. As you turn the pages, you may find yourself wistfully considering your own crossroads and the fleeting nature of time.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
New

Tales from the Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
$8.90
Compare to estimated retail price: S$24.90  

The item you've got your eye on is secondhand. You probably already know that, but just in case!

The estimated retail price shown next to any listed item represents the first-hand prices we've seen elsewhere, or the estimated original retail price of a comparable item of the same quality, construction and material offered elsewhere in new condition.

Condition guide

Book Condition Guide

Books in Like New Condition

This book may contain very minor cosmetic defects, but it is in pristine condition. There should be no yellowing, no foxing, no water damage, and no annotations of any kind on the cover and the pages. For paperbacks, there should not be any crease marks on the spine. This book is good as new — lucky you!

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Very Good Condition

This book has been used, but it is still in a clean condition. There should be no foxing or annotations of any kind on the inner pages, but a sparse amount may be present on the cover, title pages, or outside edges of the book. There should be no water damage of any kind. For paperbacks, there may be light crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Good Condition

We do our best to ensure the quality of our books, but there is no escaping the wear and tear that comes with time. Slight foxing and some annotations may be present on the pages and the cover. There should be no water damage of any kind. For paperbacks, there may be several crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

Books in Well Read Condition

This is a well-read book, which means that the previous owner probably really enjoyed it! The cover and pages may include moderate foxing and annotations, but the text is not obscured and still readable. Moderate cosmetic defects and minor water damage may be present on the edges of the book. For paperbacks, there may be multiple crease marks on the spine.

*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

Find out more about our process here.

Special Offer

Buy 3, Get Another Free On All Items Under S$10 Storewide

Discount applied automatically when you add them to your cart.

ISBN: 9781529050868
Authors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2020-09-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
Related Topics: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel, Magical Realism
Goodreads rating: 3.96
(rated by 129088 readers)

Description

The heartwarming Tales from the Café, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, asks what you would do if you could travel back in time—and who you would want to meet, perhaps for one last time. In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has served carefully brewed coffee for more than a hundred years. But this café offers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story about four new customers who hope to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among faces familiar to readers, we are introduced to: the man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago; the son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral; the man who travelled to see the girl he could not marry; the old detective who never gave his wife that gift. This beautiful tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives.
 

Time-traveling café offers poignant, existential reflections.

"Tales from the Café" serves as more than mere fiction; it’s a meditative blend of nostalgia, human regrets, and the profound what-ifs of life. If you've ever harbored a yearning to revisit and perhaps repair a moment from your past, let Kawaguchi guide you with his elegantly brewed narrative. As you turn the pages, you may find yourself wistfully considering your own crossroads and the fleeting nature of time.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.