P54 / VOLUME 1 / The Hourglass
The Kōenji Café
For forty years, they have told him about impossible lives. Today, their stories begin to connect. At the Kōenji café, Shigeru Arai serves, listens, and lets his customers leave with their silences. He has heard of loves that cannot be found, different families, lives nothing can confirm. Then details begin to align between people who should not share the same memories.
The Hourglass / APODYOPSISBEYOND THE COVER
The Kōenji Café
The novel’s colors become a space.Enter the setting
THE OPENING PAGES / AN EVOCATIONSpaces imagined from the opening pages. Each setting leads back to its book.