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Book Description 

From the internationally bestselling 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 neighborhood 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 neighborhood 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 Café Torunka 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.

 

About the Author and Translator

Satoshi Yagisawa is the internationally bestselling author of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel which won the Chiyoda Literature Prize, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, and Days at the Torunka Café. He lives in Japan.

 

Eric Ozawa is a writer and translator. His translation of Satoshi Yagisawa’s novel Days at the Morisaki Bookshop was an international bestseller that was short-listed for the British Book Award for Debut Book of the Year. His translation of the sequel, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, was published this summer by HarperCollins. His other writing includes fiction in Granta, Electric Literature and Columbia, and coverage of the nuclear crisis in Fukushima for The Nation where he interviewed and translated authors including Banana Yoshimoto and Koji Suzuki. He lives in New York, where he is a professor at New York University.

Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (Trans.)

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  • Format: Paperback

    Page Count: 240

    Publication Date: November 04, 2025

  • 9780063095731

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