If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
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 something else besides coffee—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. But time travel isn’t so simple, and
there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can
last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.
Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu
Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old
question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?