by David Liss · Grijalbo Mondadori · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425338113
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«El mercader de café» is the historical novel by David Liss, published by Grijalbo Mondadori in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Amsterdam, 1659: in the world's first stock exchange, Miguel Lienzo, a Jewish merchant of Portuguese origin ruined by the collapse of the sugar market, partners with a Dutch woman in a daring plan to monopolize the trade of an emerging commodity, coffee. The venture pits him against the strict norms of his community and an enemy determined to ruin him. The novel portrays the clash between religious traditions and nascent speculative capitalism.
Translation by Encarna Quijada of the English original «The Coffee Trader» (2003). Belongs to Grijalbo's Novela Histórica collection.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction interested in the origins of capitalism, commercial conspiracies, and the life of the Sephardic Jewish community in seventeenth-century Europe.
David Liss is an American writer of novels, essays and short fiction; more recently working also in comic books. He was born in New Jersey and grew up in South Florida. Liss received his BA degree from Syracuse University, an MA from Georgia State University and his M. Phil from Columbia University. He left his post-graduate studies of 18th Century British literature and unfinished dissertation to write full-time. "If things had not worked out with fiction, I probably would have kept to my graduate school career track and sought a job as a literature professor," he said. A full-time writer since 2010, Liss lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and children.
