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The Coffee Trader: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $15.00
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Description
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 success—a 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.
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-04
Summary: "A High Octane Thriller"
"The Coffee Trader" is a little like being immersed in a Franz Hals painting: The characters are vivid and complex. You don't have to be a Portuguese Jew to identify with the book's leading character, nor a Dutch gentile to sympathize with the supporting ones. Who would have thought a novel about commodities trading could be such a page-turner? Perhaps the reason why David Liss has been so successful is that he respects the intelligence of his readers.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-05-07
Summary: "Fascinating read"
David Liss is a superb writer
who brings life and light to this historical
enterprise. It's worth plowing through
the first 30 pages; then it come alive.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-12
Summary: "Grab a Coffee and Enjoy the Book"
What a great book! The story deals with commodity trading, insider trading, bubble markets, persecuted people and insular institutions. And, it is all woven together in a fantastic narrative. Edward Liss hits the mark.
Miguel Lienzo is a Portuguese Jew who escaped the Inquisition and is now part of the Netherlands' Sephardic Jewish community. The tribal heads of the community have shocking amounts of power, which is sometimes misused. Lienzo, a schemer, concocts a plot to corner the coffee market. He runs up against intra and inter tribal issues. She schemes with a seductive, entrepreneurial Dutch widow. He must navigate all kinds of relationships and egos.
Edward Liss wrote another beautiful and enjoyable work. Be careful, you'll find you are drinking more coffee as you enjoy this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2010-03-27
Summary: "S-l-o-o-o-o-w Torture!"
The storyline is promising: a nearly bankrupt commodities trader concocts a scheme to manipulate the emerging coffee commodity in order to repay his debts, but has to outwit a powerful trader who is also his sworn enemy. But 200 pages in, it still felt like a failed promise. I was angry. I was frustrated. I was surprised--surprised his editor let this get out. This is my first book by Liss. Knowing that he'd won a book award and having read the promising first pages, I believed I'd found a well-written book. At the micro level the book is well written in that Mr. Liss has a polished, almost literary writing style. But, at the macro level, the storyline falls short. Reading it was like listening to someone who talks on and on without ever getting to the point. Or like hearing someone try to tell a joke, but they never quite get to the punch line. You could read Ch. 1-3 (53 pages), jump to Ch. 5-6 (13 pages), then jump to Ch. 32 -35 (33 pages) and enjoy all this book has to offer. You could read those 99 pages instead of the entire 386 pages and miss very little in the way of plot development. And you'd feel no torture.
Most of the story is written in 3rd person, but part of it is in 1st person. The switch from one viewpoint to the other contributed nothing.
Every character in the book is unsympathetic. As a reader, I was disappointed with all of them, even the minor ones. The character who elicited empathy in the beginning (Hannah) was by the end just as disgusting as all the others. BTW, the whole Hannah story contributed little to the main storyline.
When I read this book, I almost put it down many times. But David Liss kept stringing me along until, finally at page 200, I couldn't stand another minute of it. So I did something I just don't do: I jumped to the last chapter and read it. Then I read the chapter before that. I began to read it backward one chapter at a time. That made it a lot more interesting. Eventually, the whole book was finished.
After this, I would be disinclined to read anything else by David Liss. But I WILL give Liss another chance to redeem himself because he did, after all, manage to string me along for 200 pages.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-03-18
Summary: "Dreary and depressing topic but well written"
The history was interesting but the topic and plot tended to be explicit as to the morals and conditions of the times. While it was well-written technically,and I finished the book I really didn't enjoy it.