Library Brown Bag Book Club to Read “The Coffee Trader”
The next meeting of the Brown Bag Book Club will be on Tuesday,
March 20th, noon to 1 p.m. in the Library Special Collections Room.
We will be discussing “The Coffee Trader” by David Liss. This book
is available in print and on audio CD for those of you who like to
listen as you commute.
It should be an interesting discussion!
Here’s a brief synopsis:
Amsterdam, 1659: 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 suddenly lost everything. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living
in his younger brother’s canal-flooded basement, Miguel must find a way
to restore his wealth and reputation.
Miguel enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who
offers him one last chance at successóa daring plot to corner the
market of an astonishing new commodity called “coffee.” To succeed,
Miguel must risk everything he values and face 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.