<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
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"Times New Roman"">In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that 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.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Sitka Heading";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Sitka Heading";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Toshikazu
Kawaguchi </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:
"Sitka Heading";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971. He 
formerly produced,
directed, and wrote for the theatrical group Sonic Snail. As a 
playwright, his
works include COUPLE, Sunset Song, and Family Time. The novel Before the
 Coffee Gets Cold is adapted from an 1110 Productions play by Kawaguchi,
 which won the
10th Suginami Drama Festival grand prize.</span></p>

