by David Liss · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497937146
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«El mercader de café» is the historical novel by David Liss, published by Debolsillo in paperback (384 pages, in Spanish).
In 1660 Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a converso Jew ruined by the collapse of the sugar market, seeks to rebuild his fortune in the fledgling coffee trade. His pact with a Dutchwoman defies the laws of his community, and his ambition leads him to speculative maneuvers, powerful enemies, and a forbidden desire for his sister-in-law.
Originally published as «The Coffee Trader» in 2003; the Spanish edition, in the Campanas collection from Debolsillo, appeared in 2005.
For readers of historical fiction and intrigue with an interest in commerce, finance, and Jewish life in seventeenth-century Amsterdam.
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.
