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Days at the Torunka Café

Torunka Café, Book 1

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Days at the Torunka Café

By: Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa - translation
Narrated by: Sadao Ueda
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Curl up with a hot drink and blanket this Christmas with Days at the Torunka Cafe, the cosy, life-affirming, beloved Japanese novel - from the author of international bestseller Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.


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From the author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.

Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighbourhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Numata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighbourhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time.

While the Torunka Café serves up a perfect cup of coffee, it provides these sundry souls with nourishment far more lasting. Satoshi Yagisawa brilliantly illuminates the periods in our lives where we feel lost - and how we find our way again.

©2025 Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (P)2025 Bonnier Books UK Friendship Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural World Literature
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I’m all for English translations of foreign language books being narrated by a native speaker of that language. It’s important that indigenous names and words be pronounced correctly. It also positions the listener in that milieu. But the narrator also has to be a competent English speaker. In this case, the narrator’s English was so heavily accented I found it difficult to understand him and I had a sense of him struggling with the rhythms and emphasis of the translated text so much that it took me out of the story.

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