by David Liss · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490629550
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«El mercader de café» is the historical novel by David Liss, published by Penguin Random House in paperback, in Spanish.
Set in the eighteenth century, the novel delves into the coffee trade and the disputes over controlling a product capable of enriching or ruining empires. The protagonist, a merchant, becomes embroiled in conspiracies and secrets while trying to prosper in a business full of rivalries, deceptions, and unstable alliances.
Category Literature and Fiction; ISBN 9788490629550.
For readers of historical novels of intrigue and adventure, interested in the coffee trade and the eighteenth-century setting.
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.
