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The coffee trader : a novel

A tale of historical intrigue set in the world of 17th-century Amsterdam's immigrant Jewish community. Portuguese Jew Miguel Lienzo ignores the strictures of his community and joins forces with a Dutchwoman to capture the coffee market.

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  • "Coffee trader"@it
  • "Coffee trader"@pl
  • "Coffee trader"@he

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  • "En 1659 à Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, marchand juif portugais de la ville, presque ruiné par une chute du cours du sucre à la Bourse, la première de l'histoire, se voit proposer une affaire prometteuse par Geertruid Damhuis. La jeune femme lui offre de s'associer à elle dans une entreprise d'approvisionnement en café, une nouvelle denrée sur le marché."
  • "In seventeenth-century Amsterdam, Miguel Lienzo, a Portuguese-Jewish trader desperate to recover his lost fortune, enters into a partnership with seductive Geertruid Damhouder to introduce coffee to the city, and confronts a ruthless adversary."
  • "A tale of historical intrigue set in the world of 17th-century Amsterdam's immigrant Jewish community. Portuguese Jew Miguel Lienzo ignores the strictures of his community and joins forces with a Dutchwoman to capture the coffee market."@en
  • "Amsterdam in the 1690s - a boom-town with Europe's biggest stock exchange and traders who will stop at nothing to get even richer."
  • "On the world's first commodities exchange in Amsterdam, 1659 - a mysterious world of trade populated by schemes and rogues, where deception rules the day, Miguel Lienzo has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. He enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who pitches the newest commodity: coffee."
  • "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."@en
  • "In het Amsterdam van 1659 probeert een joods-Portugese handelsman zich te mengen in de opkomende koffiehandel, maar zijn vrienden zijn niet wie ze lijken, zijn vijanden zijn talrijk en de Joodse Raad volgt hem met argusogen."

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  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"@he
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Roman historique"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Roman policier"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Der Kaffeehändler : Roman"
  • "Ka fei shang ren"
  • "Torgovet︠s︡ kofe : [roman]"
  • "Handelaar in koffie"
  • "Торговец кофе : [роман]"
  • "Soḥer ha-ḳafeh"
  • "Le marchand de café"
  • "The coffee trader : a novel"
  • "The coffee trader : a novel"@en
  • "咖啡商人"
  • "Il mercante di caffè"@it
  • "Il mercante di caffè"
  • "The coffee trader a novel"@en
  • "סוחר הקפה"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "El mercader de café"
  • "El mercader de café"@es
  • "Торговец кофе"
  • "Torgovet︠s︡ kofe"
  • "Der Kaffeehändler Roman"
  • "סוחר ה־קפה"
  • "El Mercader de café"
  • "The coffee trader"@en
  • "The coffee trader"
  • "Kahve tüccarı"
  • "Handlarz kawą"
  • "Handlarz kawą"@pl
  • "Le marchand de café : roman"

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