Liss, David
The Coffee Trader
- ISBN 13:
- 9780349115009
- author:
- Liss, David
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Abacus
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2003
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 13 x 20 x 2.6 centimetres (0.28
- Genre:
- Historical fiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
In 1659, Amsterdam's world of trade is a place of deception and greed, where fortunes are won and lost in an instant. For Miguel, a sharp-witted trader, this is a world he knows all too well. Once among the city's most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. Now, impoverished and humiliated, he must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Miguel enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success - a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. With humor, imagination, and mystery, David Liss depicts a world of subterfuge, danger, and repressed longing, where religious and cultural traditions clash with the demands of a new and exciting way of doing business.
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