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 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.

コーヒーの香りとショパンの調べが、私をあの頃へと戻してゆく。店の常連千代子にとって、マスターの淹れるコーヒーはささやかな魔法。二十年前、夫との関係に一人悩み、傷ついた気持ちを救ってくれたのがこの店だった。心地よい苦みと懐かしい旋律が記憶を呼び戻し、不思議な出会いが訪れて……。下町にひっそり佇む純喫茶トルンカを舞台に三つの温かい交流を描く、感動の第二弾。