Ver a tamaño completo.
THE COFFEE TRADER.
de Liss,David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375508546
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508547
- Librería
-
Ione, California, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York:: Random House,, (2003.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. His second novel (his first won the Edgar), set in Amsterdam in 1659, the story of Miguel Lienzo, a trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, who lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets and now has one chance to restore his fortunes - by cornering the market in a new commodity called "coffee." SIGNED on the title page. Historical note, bibliography. 389 pp.
Sinopsis
The Edgar Award--winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. His destination: Amsterdam, 1659--a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day.On the world's first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only 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, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation.Miguel enters into a partnership with a seduc-tive 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. Miguel will learn that among Amsterdam's ruthless businessmen, betrayal lurks everywhere, and even friends hide secret agendas.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. Readers of historical suspense and lovers of coffee (even decaf) will be up all night with this beguiling novel.From the Hardcover edition.
Reseñas
El Dec 7 2010, CoffeeMillionaire dijo:
Most people don't know about the most traded commodity on earth. This looks like a great book.
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 87678
- Título
- THE COFFEE TRADER.
- Autor
- Liss,David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0375508546
- ISBN 13
- 9780375508547
- Editorial
- Random House,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (2003.)
- Palabras clave
- amsterdam, 17th century,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mysteries: historical;
Términos de venta
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Free media mail shipping in US included; priority is $7.50 and international at cost. Books are packed carefully, shipped promptly with delivery confirmation and insurance at our expense. It is important for our customers to be totally satisfied with their purchase and guarantee all of our books to be as described. Want lists welcomed.
Sobre el vendedor
Bookfever.com, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Ione, California
Sobre Bookfever.com, IOBA
Celebrating our 30th year in business. We started selling books in the CompuServe Book Collecting forum in 1993, a few years before there was any commercial Internet. In 1998 we relocated our main business from Sacramento to the Sierra foothills of Amador County.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
