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The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, it follows a new group of customers in a magical, time-traveling Tokyo café. Patrons of Café Funiculi Funicula are well aware of the strange ability it gives them to take a trip into the past – as well as the strict rules involved, including that each traveler must return to the present in the time it takes to drink their coffee. Cool down. In Toshikazu Kawaguchi's previous novels, shepherds are reunited with old flames, reconcile with estranged family, and visit their loved ones. Now readers will once again be introduced to a new group of visitors. The husband who had something important left to say The woman who couldn't say goodbye to her dog The woman who couldn't respond to the offer of the daughter who sent her father away In the last chance to say goodbye to her dog, translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Truslot and featuring distinctive, heart-warming characters and sad storytelling, Kawaguchi invites the reader Once again he asked himself: What would you change if you could travel back in time?